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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature

Name: Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
ISBN: 9781108834452

Chloe Wigston Smith, Beth Fowkes Tobin

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Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.

种类:

Arts - History & Criticism

年:

2022

出版社:

Cambridge University Press

语言:

english

页:

345

ISBN 10:

1108834450