Interior design and identity Military history

Interior design and identity Military historyThis fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female home makers in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernise their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) interior decorators,

postfeminism and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why female artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls – and what these contemporary artistic explorations signify

The book consists of a series of interconnected case studies of movies

visual culture and the performing arts

the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for the future of the university

Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability

he reveals that the practice of cultural and commercial cloning from one place to another

It offers a refreshing theorisation of participatory art as gesture

including animation

some of our own mental abilities

public monuments and the press

Matching visual ethnography with critical analysis

and in widely varying circumstances