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British and Chinese design
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ceramics
chinoiserie
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cross-cultural exchange
cultural phenomenon of Chinese taste
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eighteenth-century global consumer culture
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wallpaper
Product details
- ISBN 9780719089459
- Weight: 776g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was instead a critical commentator on that culture. Analysing ceramics, wallpaper, furniture, garden architecture and other significant examples of British and Chinese design, this book takes an object-focused approach to studying the cultural phenomenon of the ‘Chinese taste’ in eighteenth-century Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the critical history of design and the decorative arts in the period, and students and scholars of art history, material culture, eighteenth-century studies and British history will find a novel approach to studying the decorative arts and a forceful argument for their critical capacities.
Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University
