Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home

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Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home

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2018-10

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This dissertation considers how makers, especially women and children, were using mass-produced images clipped from periodicals, advertisements, and other printed sources to assert their own agency and individuality via collage-like practices in their homes during the nineteenth century. I use a wide array of “printcrafts” – my term for objects made from prints – that mediate between uniqueness and mass production, handicraft and industrialization, destruction and creation. My case studies include scrapbooks, decoupaged (print-covered) furniture, chromolithography, and board games. The project grapples with domestic craft’s relationship to affluent white femininity while using print to understand the relationship between the home, industrialization, and creativity in the modern era. By focusing on the ingenuity and “making” done by nineteenth-century homemakers, this project recovers an artistic past that has been overshadowed by more canon-driven studies of art and emphasizes the innovation and importance of centuries-old craft practices, such as collage, years before they were co-opted by twentieth-century avant-garde art movements.

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. October 2018. Major: Art History. Advisor: Jennifer Marshall. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 214 pages.

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Michelon, Christina. (2018). Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/250409.

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