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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Clare TaylorPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9781472456151ISBN 10: 1472456157 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 19 June 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1.‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: the arrival of wallpaper; 2. A contested trade; 3. Imitation and the cross-cultural encounter: ‘India’ and ‘mock India’ papers, pictures and prints; 4. In search of propriety: flocks and plains; 5. Challenging the high arts: papier mâché, stucco papers and ‘landskip’ papers; 6. ‘Our modern paper hangings’: in search of the fashionable and the new; Epilogue: 'Pleasing decay' – the rediscovery of eighteenth-century wallpapers; Appendix 1: List of principal wallpapered rooms discussed, c.1714–c.1795; Appendix 2. List of eighteenth-century London paper hangings tradesmen discussed; BibliographyReviewsThe book is geared to historians of material culture and design scholars. ... [Taylor] reaches her target audience by addressing and examining areas of greatest interest as the book is informative and packed with detailed information. This book would be of interest to anyone interested in wallpaper history, eighteenth-century industry or period interiors. Illustrations are plentiful, numerous endnotes follow each chapter, and there is an extensive bibliography. --Journal of Design History Author InformationClare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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