Domestic interiors : representing homes from the Victorians to the moderns / edited by Georgina Downey

Contributor(s):

Downey, Georgina [editor.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781472539410
1472539419

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Domestic interiors.DDC classification:

747.09 23

LOC classification:

N8217.H66 D65 2013eb

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Contents:

Verandas: spaces without walls -- the veranda in colonial Singapore / Brenda Martin -- Halls and corridors: spaces between and beyond / Trevor Keeble -- Drawing rooms: a backward glance -- fashioning an individual drawing room / Anne Anderson -- Dining rooms: measuring the gap between the Edwardians and the Moderns / John C. Turpin -- Studios: live (red) matter; Matisse's l'Atelier rouge / Julieanna Preston -- Kitchens: from warm workshop to kitchenscape / Imma Forino -- Bathrooms: plumbing the canon -- the bath tub nudes of Alfred Stevens, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Bonnard reconsidered / Georgina Downey -- Bedrooms: corporeality and subjectivity / Francesca Berry -- Hidden spaces: cavities, attics and cellars -- morbid secrets and threatening discoveries / Mark Taylor.

Summary: "In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities. Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. Scholars from the US, UK and Australasia re-visit and re-think interiors by Bonnard, Matisse, Degas and Vuillard, as well as the great spaces of early modernity; the drawing room in Rossetti's house, hallways in Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Paris attic of the Brothers Goncourt; Schutte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen, to explore how interior making has changed from the Victorian to the modern period. From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco, Domestic Interiors focuses on modern rooms 'imaged' and imagined, it builds a distinct body of knowledge around the interior, interiority, representation and modernity, and creates a rich resource for students and scholars in art, architecture and design history."--Publisher's description

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"In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities. Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. Scholars from the US, UK and Australasia re-visit and re-think interiors by Bonnard, Matisse, Degas and Vuillard, as well as the great spaces of early modernity; the drawing room in Rossetti's house, hallways in Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Paris attic of the Brothers Goncourt; Schutte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen, to explore how interior making has changed from the Victorian to the modern period. From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco, Domestic Interiors focuses on modern rooms 'imaged' and imagined, it builds a distinct body of knowledge around the interior, interiority, representation and modernity, and creates a rich resource for students and scholars in art, architecture and design history."--Publisher's description