Love Objects

Emotion, Design and Material Culture

By: Dr Anna Moran (Editor), Dr Sorcha O'Brien (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 June 2014 | Edition Number 1

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184 Pages

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Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture investigates the physical embodiment of love by exploring the emotional potency of objects in our lives. How do objects become fetishes, symbols and representations; active participants in and mediators of our relationships; as well as tokens of affections, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places and times? Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, covering both designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of material culture, the book explores different methodological approaches to the concept of love, whether it is different expressions of religious devotion, familial bonds, or the complexities of sexuality and sexualisation. Love Objects covers a variety of media and object types, both material and immaterial, from nineteenth-century American men's portraits displaying passionate friendships to the role played by religious statues in mediating both devotional and political power in 1920s Ireland.

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"The particular strength of this book resides in the perfect balance between the originality of the case studies (if the object they illustrate are very usual, the examples that illustrate them are often quite the contrary) and the capacity of the authors to enrich their own methodology, which is either theoretical (the common denominator being in many cases a certain emphasis on anthropology) or practice-based (the volume contains several contributions by artists with a strong theoretical interest), with a strong sensibility of the political dimension of the personal. All essays offer very innovative interpretations of femininity and masculinity, defeminizing and sometimes even queering them not only through the analysis of the cultural and historical conventions that surround them but also through the lines of resistance and empowerment that love objects may disclose." --Jan Baetens, Leonardo

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