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…mehr
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.
Anna Moran is Coordinator of the MA in Design History and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Ireland. Sorcha O'Brien teaches Design History and Theory to Product and Furniture Design students in Kingston University, UK.
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Editors' Foreword; Anna Moran National College of Art and Design Ireland and Sorcha O'Brien Kingston University UK Introduction: How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture; Victor Margolin University of Illinois Chicago Part 1: The Lives of Objects 1. "I Love Giving Presents": The Emotion of Material Culture; Louise Purbrick University of Brighton UK 2. (S)Mother's Love or Baby Knitting; Jo Turney Bath School of Art and Design Bath Spa University UK 3. Sex Birth and Nurture unto Death: Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers; Catherine Harper University of Portsmouth UK Part 2: Projecting and Subverting Identities 4. Bringing Out the Past: Courtly Love and Nineteenth-Century American Men's Passionate Friendship Portraits; Elizabeth Howie Coastal Carolina University USA 5. The Genteel Craft of Subversion: Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteeth Centuries; Noreen McGuire Victoria & Albert Museum UK 6. Performing Masculinity through Objects in Post-War America: The Playboy's Pipe; Jessica Sewell Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University China Part 3: Objects and Embodiment 7. Seduced by the Archive: A Personal Relationship with the Archive and Collection of Objects Pertaining to the London Couturier Norman Hartnell; Jane Hattrick University of Brighton UK 8. Kitsch Enchantment and Power: The Bleeding Statues of Templemore in 1920; Ann Wilson Cork Institute of Technology Ireland 9. "Magic Toyshops": Narrative and Meaning in the Women's Sex Shop; Fran Carter Kingston University UK Part 4: Mediating Relationships 10. Material Memories: Making of a Collodion Memory-Text; Christina Edwards Aberystwyth UK 11. The Problematic Decision to Live: Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty; Adam Drazin University College London UK 12. Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences; Jonathan Chapman University of Brighton UK Index
Editors' Foreword; Anna Moran National College of Art and Design Ireland and Sorcha O'Brien Kingston University UK Introduction: How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture; Victor Margolin University of Illinois Chicago Part 1: The Lives of Objects 1. "I Love Giving Presents": The Emotion of Material Culture; Louise Purbrick University of Brighton UK 2. (S)Mother's Love or Baby Knitting; Jo Turney Bath School of Art and Design Bath Spa University UK 3. Sex Birth and Nurture unto Death: Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers; Catherine Harper University of Portsmouth UK Part 2: Projecting and Subverting Identities 4. Bringing Out the Past: Courtly Love and Nineteenth-Century American Men's Passionate Friendship Portraits; Elizabeth Howie Coastal Carolina University USA 5. The Genteel Craft of Subversion: Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteeth Centuries; Noreen McGuire Victoria & Albert Museum UK 6. Performing Masculinity through Objects in Post-War America: The Playboy's Pipe; Jessica Sewell Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University China Part 3: Objects and Embodiment 7. Seduced by the Archive: A Personal Relationship with the Archive and Collection of Objects Pertaining to the London Couturier Norman Hartnell; Jane Hattrick University of Brighton UK 8. Kitsch Enchantment and Power: The Bleeding Statues of Templemore in 1920; Ann Wilson Cork Institute of Technology Ireland 9. "Magic Toyshops": Narrative and Meaning in the Women's Sex Shop; Fran Carter Kingston University UK Part 4: Mediating Relationships 10. Material Memories: Making of a Collodion Memory-Text; Christina Edwards Aberystwyth UK 11. The Problematic Decision to Live: Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty; Adam Drazin University College London UK 12. Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences; Jonathan Chapman University of Brighton UK Index
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