Material Theories
Locating Artefacts and People in Gottfried Semper's Writings
Series: Routledge Research in Interior Design;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 20 June 2022
- ISBN 9780367473914
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 55 Illustrations, black & white; 55 Halftones, black & white 272
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Short description:
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper's classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style.
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Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style.
This book demonstrates how Semper’s theories crystallised among his encounters with material things of the late 1840s and early 1850s. It examines several discursive frameworks and phenomena which shaped the attitude to artefacts in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and which were specifically pertinent to Semper’s evolution: archaeology and antiquarianism, the domestic interior, print media, collections, and the embodied relationship between the designer and their work. For the first time, this book examines the construction of a design theory not only as an intellectual endeavour but also as a process of confrontation with material things. It employs recent approaches to material culture, in particular Thing Theory, in order to show that Semper’s artefact references constituted his ideas, rather than simply giving impetus to them.
It will be an important investigation for academics and researchers interested in interior design history, as well as scholars of material culture and history of design theory.
Table of Contents:
1.Acknowledgements 2.Introduction 3.Biographical Background 4.Outline of the book Chapter 1 - Analysis and experience: artefacts in archaeology and cultural history Chapter 2 - Speaking artefacts and reconstructions of the past Chapter 3 - Domestic space and the theory of decorative things Chapter 4 - Interiors and the education of taste Chapter 5 – Commodity and the Great Exhibition Chapter 6 – Artefacts and bodies Epilogue Bibliography Index
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