Inside Texas
eBook - ePub

Inside Texas

Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Inside Texas

Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920

About this book

“Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920” is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and different.  Over the 40 year time span covered by the book, decorating ideas nationally and in Texas went from the era of Victorianism with “all that stuff” to the spare, clean lines of the arts and crafts movement. By 1920, like Americans across the country, many Texans, especially the wealthier, were taking their decorating ideas from the new professionals – architects and designers – and their homes reflected less their own identity than the taste and eye of the decorator.

In seven years of research, Brandimarte traveled the state, collecting photographs of interiors of Texas homes – rare in comparison to exterior views.  The images reprinted here are arranged neither in chronological order nor according to decorating style but by identities –occupation, family, ethnicity, social group, region, culture and refinement, class and style.  Brief biographical information about the homeowners is incorporated into the text.

“Inside Texas” is about people and houses.  It is social history, a significant contribution to scholarship, an invaluable resource for preservationist, docents, architects and designers as well as a book to be treasured by anyone who loves old houses. 


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Information

Publisher
TCU Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780875650920
eBook ISBN
9780875655178

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. “All That Stuff”: An Introduction
  8. 2. Ranchers and Lawyers, Photographers and Artists: Occupation
  9. 3. Ties That Bind: Family
  10. 4. “Madonnas upon Log-Walls”: Ethnicity
  11. 5. Home Away from Home: Social Group
  12. 6. The Alamo, the Lone Star, and the Confederacy: Region
  13. 7. Art Good Enough for Texas: Refinement
  14. 8. From Art Galleries to Sears, Roebuck: Class
  15. 9. Aesthetic, Mission, and Colonial Revival: Style
  16. 10. Houses of Many Rooms: Multiple Identities
  17. 11. “Interior Decorators Were Not Yet With Us”: Advice Literature
  18. 12. Toward Professional Decoration: A Case Study
  19. 13. Deep in the Heart of Anywhere: Architects and Decorators
  20. Appendix 1
  21. Appendix 2
  22. Glossary
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index