Material Identities [Paperback]

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• Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world.
  
• Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture.
  
• Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design.
  
• Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class.
  
• Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Materiality and Identity (Joanna Sofaer).

PART I: PROJECTING IDENTITIES.

1. Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Perfomativity, Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation (Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).

2. Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion (Robin Osborne).

PART II: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS.

3. Bernini Struts (Michael Cole).

4. Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt (Doris Behrens-Abouseif).

5. Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation and the Body In Later Prehistoric Europe (Fay Stevens).

PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY.

6. Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian Revival Style (Abigail HarlÓ_