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The country house : material culture and consumption
Title
The country house : material culture and consumption / edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann.
ISBN
9781848022331
1848022336
Publication
Swindon : Historic England, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
ix, 214 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, plans (some color) ; 29 cm
Summary
This book presents a series of conference papers exploring the material culture of the country house and its presentation to the public. There is an academic interest in the consumption practices of the elite, and in the country house as a lived and living space, which was consciously transformed according to fashion and personal taste; but importantly there is also a concern amongst curators to present a coherent narrative of historic properties and their contents to the modern visitor. The proceeding address a number of current academic debates about elite consumption practices, and the role of landed society as arbiters of taste. By looking at the country house as lived space, many of the papers throw up interesting questions about the accumulation and arrangement of objects; the way in which rooms were used and experienced by both owners and visitors, and how this sense of "living history" can be presented meaningfully to the public.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Jon Stobart
The country house and cultures of consumption
Section 1: Elites, consumption and the country house
1. Yme Kuiper / The rise of the country house in the Dutch Republic: beyond Johan Huizinga's narrative of Dutch civilisation in the 17th century
2. Jane Whittle / The gentry as consumers in early 17th-century England
3. Johanna Ilmakunnas / To build according to one's status: a country house in late 18th-century Sweden
4. Mark Rothery and Jon Stobart / Geographies of supply: Stoneleigh Abbey and Arbury Hall in the 18th century
5. Shelley Garland / The use of French architectural design books in De Grey's choice of style at Wrest Park
Section 2: Continuity, heritage and the country house
6. Hannah Chavasse / Fashion and 'affectionate recollection': material culture at Audley End, 1762-1773
7. Hanneke Ronnes / A sense of heritage: renewal versus preservation in the English and Dutch palaces of William III in the 18th century
8. Victor Hugo López Borges / An Anglo-Irish country house in Spain: the Palacio de Castrelos
Section 3: Eastern connections, adoptions and imitations
9. Emile de Bruijn / Consuming East Asia: continuity and change in the development of chinoiserie
10. Kate Smith / Imperial objects? Country house interiors in 18th-century Britain
11. Patricia F Ferguson / 'Japan China' taste and elite ceramic consumption in 18th-century England: revising the narrative
12. Helen Clifford / 'Conquests from North to South': The Dundas property empire. New wealth, constructing status and the role of 'India' goods in the British country house
Section 4: Country house interiors as lived spaces
13. Rosie MacArthur / Settling into the country house: the Hanburys at Kelmarsh Hall
14. Susan Jenkins / Fashion and function: the decoration of the library at Kenwood in context
15. Karol Mullaney-Dignam / Useless and extravagant? The consumption of music in the Irish country house
16. Annie Gray / Broccoli, bunnies and beef: supplying the edible wants of the Victorian country house
Section 5: Presenting the country house
17. Nicola Pickering / Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and Mentmore Towers: displaying 'le goût Rothschild'
18. Anna McEvoy / Following in the footsteps of 18th-century tourists: the visitor experience at Stowe over 300 years
19. Karen Fielder / X marks the spot: narratives of a lost country house.
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