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Author Potvin, John, author.

Title Bachelors of a different sort : queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain / John Potvin.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in design and material culture
Studies in design and material culture.
Note Originally published: 2014.
Contents 1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor -- I. Wilde Spaces: 2.`God Save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-a-brac diva -- 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor -- II. Country Living -- 4. Askesis and the Greek ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House -- 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal -- III. Stage Design for Living -- 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity -- 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance -- 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of One's own.
Summary This title considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957.
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Subject Gay men -- Great Britain -- Identity.
Gay men.
Great Britain.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Gay men -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Bachelors -- Great Britain -- Identity.
Bachelors.
Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Material culture.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Interior decoration -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Interior decoration -- Social aspects.
Interior decoration.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Subject Gay men.
Other Form: Print version: Potvin, John. Bachelors of a different sort. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9781784991098 (OCoLC)1061746886
ISBN 9781526159311 (electronic book)
1526159317 (electronic book)
9781784991098
1784991090