Bachelors of a Different Sort
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Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain(Studies in Design and Material Culture)

Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain(Studies in Design and Material Culture)


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The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, decoration, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.

Table of Contents:
1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor Wilde spaces 2. ‘God save the Queen’: Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor 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 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 Bibliography Index

About the Author :
John Potvin is Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University, Canada


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780719084997
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Series Title: Studies in Design and Material Culture
  • Sub Title: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0719084997
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 721 gr


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