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Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

By Anna Moran; Sorcha O’Brien (editors)

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
9781472517197, 9781474293891, 9781472576385
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2335310 bytes)
Pages
\185
Time added
2023-05-22 06:49:05

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Note that abstract blurb not available Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication page CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS EDITORS’ FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture SECTION 1 The Lives of Objects 1 ‘I Love Giving Presents ’The Emotion of Material Culture Introduction: a given thing Mass Observation Emotion in material culture Real giving Forgetting Keeping giving Conclusion Notes 2 (S)mother’s Love, or, Baby Knitting Notes 3 Sex, Birth and Nurture Unto Death Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers Introduction Maternal memory Coarse craft Beds and blankets Imagine Material magic Blush Note SECTION 2 Projecting and Subverting Identities 4 Bringing Out the Past Courtly Cruising and Nineteenth-Century American Men’s Romantic Friendship Portraits Introduction: a rediscovered genre of photographic portaiture Picturing men’s romantic friendships Men’s romantic friendships in context Finding and flirting Courting the past: idealization and desire Hidden in plain sight Conclusion: courting ambiguity 5 The Genteel Craft of Subversion Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Introduction Tokens of affection Performance, props and privilege Reinventing the shoemaker Backlash Conclusion Notes 6 Performing Masculinity Through Objects in Postwar America The Playboy’s Pipe Introduction The playboy bachelor and the postwar crisis of masculinity Smoking and masculinity Gender, class and the pipe The briar pipe Pipe collecting Pipes and contemplation Conclusion Notes SECTION 3 Objects and Embodiment 7 Seduced by the Archive A Personal and Working Relationship with the Archive and Collection of the London Couturier, Norman Hartnell Introduction A life in the archive The biography of the Hartnell archive Unpacking Hartnell’s archive Archive research, autobiography and personal criticism Conclusion Notes 8 Kitsch, Enchantment and Power The Bleeding Statues of Templemorein 1920 Introduction Saint Sulpice and kitsch The Irish Roman Catholic context War and national identity Enchantment and agency Conclusion 9 ‘Magic Toyshops’ Narrative and Meaning in the Women’s Sex Shop Introduction The imagined sex shop ‘Posh means you can walk in anywhere’ Fun in the sex shop Conclusion Notes SECTION 4 Mediating Relationships 10 Material Memories The Making of a Collodion Memory-Text Introduction Family, memory, photography On materiality and memory, the photograph as object Photographs as memory-text Conclusion: photography/memory traces 11 The Problematic Decision to Live Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty Introduction Katrina’s ‘Letter of Intent’ Home-making as relating to future Carmen on stereotypical Romanians and their homes Conclusion: walls of the mind, walls of the home 12 Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences Introduction Meaning and the made Belief Meaning full Ecological destruction Disposable luxuries A behavioural crisis Emotionally durable design Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 ‘I Love Giving Presents’ 2 (S)mother’s Love, or, Baby Knitting 3 Sex, Birth and Nurture Unto Death 4 Bringing Out the Past 5 The Genteel Craft of Subversion 6 Performing Masculinity Through Objects in Postwar America 7 Seduced by the Archive 8 Kitsch, Enchantment and Power 9 ‘Magic Toyshops’ 10 Material Memories 11 The Problematic Decision to Live 12 Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences INDEX

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