'Toward A Material History of Wallpaper'In 2003, after a ...
'Toward A Material History of Wallpaper'
In 2003, after a distinguished career founding and leading the Museum of Wallpaper in Rixheim, Bernard Jacqué wrote a thesis at the University of Lyon about wallpaper: ‘De La Manufacture Au Mur: Pour une histoire matérielle du papier peint, 1770-1914’.
The French original can be accessed at:
http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/jacque_b
This thesis, which I have translated "From the Workshop to the Wall - Toward a Material History of Wallpaper" is large (600 pages, 2300 footnotes) and important.
Three selections are presented here in English-language versions (the links lead to a PDF):
1: A Historiography of Wallpaper, http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/rzsz-6286
2: Zuber’s ‘Indépendance’ (1853) a hand-painted restatement of ‘Scenic America’ (1835),
http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jnr1-zv39
3: The Scenic Revival of the 20th Century, http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/e87a-2350
I am preparing a fourth PDF based closely on the thesis which examines the role of "tableaux" and so-called tapestry papers in the late 19th century. These types were a prolongation of the scenic idea. Like the scenics, they were pictorial and often referenced art history in some way.
In 2003, after a distinguished career founding and leading the Museum of Wallpaper in Rixheim, Bernard Jacqué wrote a thesis at the University of Lyon about wallpaper: ‘De La Manufacture Au Mur: Pour une histoire matérielle du papier peint, 1770-1914’.
The French original can be accessed at:
http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/jacque_b
This thesis, which I have translated "From the Workshop to the Wall - Toward a Material History of Wallpaper" is large (600 pages, 2300 footnotes) and important.
Three selections are presented here in English-language versions (the links lead to a PDF):
1: A Historiography of Wallpaper, http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/rzsz-6286
2: Zuber’s ‘Indépendance’ (1853) a hand-painted restatement of ‘Scenic America’ (1835),
http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jnr1-zv39
3: The Scenic Revival of the 20th Century, http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/e87a-2350
I am preparing a fourth PDF based closely on the thesis which examines the role of "tableaux" and so-called tapestry papers in the late 19th century. These types were a prolongation of the scenic idea. Like the scenics, they were pictorial and often referenced art history in some way.
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