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Product Identifiers
- PublisherManchester University Press
- ISBN-100719084997
- ISBN-139780719084997
- eBay Product ID (ePID)201572116
Product Key Features
- Book TitleBachelors of a Different Sort : Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain
- Number of Pages336 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication Year2014
- TopicInterior Design / General, Social History, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
- IllustratorYes
- GenreArchitecture, Social Science, History
- AuthorJohn Potvin
- Book SeriesStudies in Design Mup Ser.
- FormatHardcover
Dimensions
- Item Height1 in
- Item Weight32.3 Oz
- Item Length6.9 in
- Item Width9.5 in
Additional Product Features
- Intended AudienceTrade
- LCCN2014-466320
- Dewey Edition23
- Dewey Decimal747.094109/034
- Table Of Content1. 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
- SynopsisThe 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., The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times an 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. These bachelors of a different sort created spaces that were centres of community, creativity and companionship, since long forgotten. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, decoration, glamour and artifice) as the author has identified them, comprise a contested site freighted with contradiction and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. All the bachelors whose aesthetic lives are contained in this book were men of the creative arts, whether as writers, collectors, playwrights, actors, designers, antiquarians, sculptors, painters, photographers and/or illustrators. The first book to explore queer sexualities and the modern interior beyond the urban bias of most scholarship, this book tackles a wide range of significant analyses of some of the period's best-known figures whose city and country interiors have largely gone unnoticed and unanalysed. As a result, it pays close attention to particular homes and domestic 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, No l 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., The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times an 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. These bachelors of a different sort created spaces that were centres of community, creativity and companionship, since long forgotten. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, decoration, glamour and artifice) as the author has identified them, comprise a contested site freighted with contradiction and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. All the bachelors whose aesthetic lives are contained in this book were men of the creative arts, whether as writers, collectors, playwrights, actors, designers, antiquarians, sculptors, painters, photographers and/or illustrators. The first book to explore queer sexualities and the modern interior beyond the urban bias of most scholarship, this book tackles a wide range of significant analyses of some of the period's best-known figures whose city and country interiors have largely gone unnoticed and unanalysed. As a result, it pays close attention to particular homes and domestic 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.
- LC Classification NumberNK2043.P68 2014