The uses of excess in visual and material culture, 1600-2010
Introduction: the uses of excess / Julia Skelly -- All that glitters: diamonds and constructions of nabobery in British portraits, 1600-1800 / Romita Ray -- 'Every other place it could be placed with advantage': ladies-in-waiting at the British court and the 'excessive' display of ceramics as art objects, 1689-1740 / Eric Weichel -- Consuming excess: pronk poppenhuisen and the dollhouses of Sara Rothé van Amstel / Michelle Moseley-Christian -- Excess, fetish, virtual: visual excesses in Victorian painting / Julie Codell -- Excess on the walls: Victorian exhibition culture and the anxieties of art and commerce / Anne Helmreich -- The paradox of excess: Oscar Wilde, caricature, and consumption / Julia Skelly -- Toronto's Casa Loma: from nostalgia to glamour and back again / Alla Myzelev -- Homosexuality/modernism/nationalism: between excess and exile in 1920s Europe / John Potvin -- Excesses of the bawdy body: John Wentworth Russell and his modern girls, 1927-1935 / Karen Stanworth -- For the love of God: excess, ambivalence, and Damien Hirst's diamond skull / Jeremy Biles -- 'Your asshole is hanging outside of your body?': excess, AIDs, and shame in the theater of Sky Gilbert / Dirk Gindt.