UID:
almafu_9959860697902883
Format:
1 online resource (328 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-5261-5931-7
,
1-78499-109-0
Series Statement:
Studies in design and material culture
Content:
This title considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britainbetween 1885 and 1957.
Note:
Originally published: 2014.
,
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-8499-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5261-5932-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.7765/9781526159328
URL:
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