Description
Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
About the Author
Jennifer Van Horn is assistant professor of art history and history at the University of Delaware.
Reviews
Represents some of the best of material culture scholarship, blending new information and ideas that are stretched to thought-provoking but not always documentable observations."" - Panorama: Journal of the AHAA
""Imaginatively developed, extensively documented, and well written. Recommended."" - Choice
""Forms a powerful testament to the value of true interdisciplinarity in its ability to advance histories of portraiture, decorative arts, and print culture as well as civil society, political identity, and gender and sexuality."" - The William and Mary Quarterly
Book Information
ISBN 9781469652191
Author Jennifer Van Horn
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 748g