Material selves: object biographies and identities in motion

Uittreksel

"This interdisciplinary anthology presents 10 chapters from a range of scholars in art history, cultural studies and anthropology to unpack the complex relationship between people and things via an object-centred model of identity. Presenting a global section of case studies, Material Selves confronts vital questions of identity, agency, and materiality, highlighting the way in which we use objects to tell stories, construct myths and make sense of our place in the world. Thus, this path-breaking volume shows how the objects with which we adorn and surround ourselves provide a model for the construction of raced, gendered, and cultured subjectivity."-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Alex Burchmore -- Part One. Biography and narrative. 1. The entangled lives of still life: Margaret Olley, objects, display, and art / Chiara O'Reilly ; 2. Self extension: material agency, intimacy, and chance in Sophie Calle's object relationships / Vanessa Berry -- Part Two. Adornment and ornament. 3. Refashioning the khila' in Safavid Persia and early modern Europe / Samantha Happé ; 4. Materiality, self, and portraiture: Charles LeBrun's Boîte à Portrait of Louis XIV / Robert Wellington ; 5. 'Furland': global fur and empires of fashion materialities in 1930s London / Cheryl Roberts -- Part Three. Reclamation and intervention. 6. Upcycling Chaney: the colonial detritus of St. Croix / Jessica Priebe ; 7. Chairman Mao's good soldier: red collecting, Lei Feng, and revolutionary selfhood in contemporary China / Emily Williams ; 8. A female embodiment: gendered materiality in Chinese contemporary art practices / Luise Guest -- Part Four. Subjects and objects. 9. Framing the self in early modern curatorial strategies of porcelain display / Alex Burchmore ; 10. Furnishings of legal lives / Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce.