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LEADER: 02179cam a2200289 i 4500
001 2014002717
003 DLC
005 20150423082440.0
008 140124s2014 vtua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014002717
020 $a9781409442370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNX180.S6$bU84 2014
082 00 $a700.1/08$223
245 04 $aThe uses of excess in visual and material culture, 1600-2010 /$cedited by Julia Skelly.
264 1 $aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$c2014.
300 $a304 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the uses of excess / Julia Skelly -- All that glitters: diamonds and constructions of nabobery in British portraits, 1600-1800 / Romita Ray -- 'Every other place it could be placed with advantage': ladies-in-waiting at the British court and the 'excessive' display of ceramics as art objects, 1689-1740 / Eric Weichel -- Consuming excess: pronk poppenhuisen and the dollhouses of Sara Rothé van Amstel / Michelle Moseley-Christian -- Excess, fetish, exotic: the profusion and confusion of virtual things in Victorian painting / Julie F. Codell -- Excess on the walls: Victorian exhibition culture and the anxieties of art and commerce / Anne Helmreich -- The paradox of excess: Oscar Wilde, caricature, and consumption / Julia Skelly -- Toronto's Casa Loma: from nostalgia to glamour and back again / Alla Myzelev -- Homosexuality/modernism/nationalism: between excess and exile in 1920s Europe / John Potvin -- Excesses of the bawdy body: John Wentworth Russell and his modern girls, 1927-1935 / Karen Stanworth -- For the love of God: excess, ambivalence, and Damien Hirst's diamond skull / Jeremy Biles -- 'Your asshole is hanging outside of your body?': excess, AIDs, and shame in the theater of Sky Gilbert / Dirk Gindt.
650 0 $aArts and society.
650 0 $aExcess (Philosophy)
700 1 $aSkelly, Julia,$eeditor of compilation.
700 12 $aRay, Romita,$eauthor.$tAll that glitters.