Love objects : emotion, design, and material culture 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• O'Brien, Sorcha
• Moran, Anna,

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017

Language

English

ISBN

9781474293891

Series

Subject(s)

• ATTACHMENT BEHAVIOR
• LOVE
• MATERIAL CULTURE
• SYMBOLISM

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-160) and index.

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Abstract

How are love and emotion embodied in material form?

Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places and times.

Addressing both designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of material culture, Love Objects explores a wide range of objects, from 19th-century American portraits displaying men's passionate friendships to the devotional and political meanings of religious statues in 1920s Ireland.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvii, 166 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
Introduction: How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture
1–6
Section 1. The Lives of Objects
1. ‘I Love Giving Presents’: The Emotion of Material Culture 9–20
2. (S)mother’s Love, or, Baby Knitting 21–30
3. Sex, Birth and Nurture Unto Death: Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers 31–40
Section 2. Projecting and Subverting Identities
4. Bringing Out the Past: Courtly Cruising and Nineteenth-Century American Men’s Romantic Friendship Portraits 43–52
5. The Genteel Craft of Subversion: Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 53–62
6. Performing Masculinity Through Objects in Postwar America: The Playboy’s Pipe 63–72
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 75–86
8. Kitsch, Enchantment and Power: The Bleeding Statues of Templemore in 1920 87–98
9. ‘Magic Toyshops’: Narrative and Meaning in the Women’s Sex Shop 99–110
Section 4. Mediating Relationships
10. Material Memories: The Making of a Collodion Memory-Text 113–124
11. The Problematic Decision to Live: Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty 125–136
12. Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences 137–148
Back matter
Bibliography 149–160

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00204/20	152.41 Lov	Online !	Available