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Bachelors of a different sort : Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain
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Bachelors of a different sort : Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain / John Potvin.
ISBN
9781526159328
9781526159311
9781784991098
Publication
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations.
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Originally published: 2014.
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Summary
This title considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britainbetween 1885 and 1957.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
Studies in design and material culture
Contents
1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor
I. Wilde Spaces: 2.`God Save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-a-brac diva
3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor
II. Country Living
4. Askesis and the Greek ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House
5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal
III. Stage Design for Living
6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity
7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance
8. Conclusion:manifesto for a queer home of One's own.
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