Material Identities (eBook)

Joanna Sofaer (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-69328-5 (ISBN)

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Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities.

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• Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world.
  
• Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture.
  
• Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design.
  
• Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class.
  
• Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.

Joanna Sofaer is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), editor of Children and Material Culture (2000) and co-editor, with Dana Arnold, of Biographies and Space (2007).

Inhalt

Series Editor's Preface.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Materiality and Identity (Joanna Sofaer).

PART I: PROJECTING IDENTITIES.

1. Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Perfomativity,
Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation (Jocelyn
Hackforth-Jones).

2. Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion (Robin
Osborne).

PART II: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS.

3. Bernini Struts (Michael Cole).

4. Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt (Doris
Behrens-Abouseif).

5. Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation
and the Body In Later Prehistoric Europe (Fay Stevens).

PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY.

6. Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian
Revival Style (Abigail Harrison-Moore).

7. Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in
Roman Britain (Louise Revell).

Bibliography.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Art & Applied Arts • Art History & Criticism • Aspects • Book • certain • Characteristics • Complexity • deliberate • Expression • Gender • goods • Identities • Identity • Individuals • Intersecting • Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • Manipulation • Material • Museen u. Kulturerbe • Museum & Heritage Studies • notions • objects • Personalities • Single • Tools • use • Way
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69328-2 / 0470693282
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69328-5 / 9780470693285