Enfilade

From Routledge:

Clare Taylor, The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain (New York: Routledge, 2018), 234 pages, ISBN: 978-1472456151 (hardback), $150 / ISBN: 978-1351021784 (ebook), $55 (ebook rental from $27).

Wallpaper’s spread across trades, class, and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material’s use in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces it occupied, from the country house to the homes of prosperous townsfolk and gentry, showing that wallpaper was hung by Earls and merchants as well as by aristocratic women. Drawing on a wide range of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives including letters and bills, it charts wallpaper’s evolution across the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new decorative material. Wallpaper’s growth is considered not in terms of chronology, but rather alongside the categories used by eighteenth-century tradesmen and consumers, from plains to flocks, from China papers to papier mâché and from stucco papers to materials for creating print rooms. It ends by assessing the ways in which eighteenth-century wallpaper was used to create historicist interiors in the twentieth century. Including a wide range of illustrations, many in colour, the book will be of interest to historians of material culture and design, scholars of art and architectural history as well as practicing designers and those interested in the historic interior.

Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University.

C O N T E N T S

List of Figures and Plates
Preface

Introduction
1  ‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: The Arrival of Wallpaper
2  A Contested Trade
3  Imitation and the Cross-Cultural Encounter: ‘India’ and ‘Mock India’ Papers, Pictures, and Prints
4  In Search of Propriety: Flocks and Plains
5  Challenging the High arts: Papier Mâché, Stucco Papers, and ‘Landskip’ Papers
6  ‘Our Modern Paper Hangings’: In Search of the Fashionable and the New
Epilogue

Appendix 1: List of Principal Wallpapered Rooms Discussed, c.1714–c.1795
Appendix 2: List of Eighteenth-Century London Paper Hangings Tradesmen DIscussed
Bibliography
Index

From the University of California Press:

J.M. Mancini, Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking, and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018), 344 pages, ISBN: 9780520294516, $65 / £50.

The Pacific world has long been recognized as a hub for the global trade in art objects, but the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region’s history: its exposure to global conflict during the British and US imperial incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world and of global artistic interaction by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force. Focusing on the period from Commodore George Anson’s voyage to the Philippine-American War, J. M. Mancini’s exceptional study deftly weaves together disparate strands of history to create a novel paradigm for cultural analysis.

J. M. Mancini is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Maynooth University, Ireland. Her publications include Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show and Architecture and Armed Conflict, edited with Keith Bresnahan.