Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities.
- 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.
Author(s): Joanna Sofaer
Series: New interventions in art history
Edition: 1
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 186
City: Malden, MA; Oxford
Material Identities......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction: Materiality and Identity......Page 15
Part I: Projecting Identities......Page 25
1 Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Performativity, Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation......Page 27
2 Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion......Page 45
Part II: Material and Social Transformations......Page 67
3 Bernini Struts......Page 69
4 Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt......Page 81
5 Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation and the Body in Later Prehistoric Europe......Page 96
Part III: Politics and Identity......Page 113
6 Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian Revival Style......Page 115
7 Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in Roman Britain......Page 141
Bibliography......Page 166
Index......Page 177
