Sofaer Material Identities

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69328-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Interventions in Art History

Material Identities examines the way that individuals usematerial objects as tools for projecting aspects of theiridentities.
* * Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, andadmired 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 interiordesign.
* Explores the complexity of identity through the intersectionnotions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class.
* Reaffirms the central role of public identities and theirimpact on social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sofaer, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 (JocelynHackforth-Jones).
2. Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion (RobinOsborne).
PART II: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS.
3. Bernini Struts (Michael Cole).
4. Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt (DorisBehrens-Abouseif).
5. Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentationand the Body In Later Prehistoric Europe (Fay Stevens).
PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY.
6. Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the EgyptianRevival Style (Abigail Harrison-Moore).
7. Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica inRoman Britain (Louise Revell).
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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).