Interiors and interiority / edited by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Beate Söntgen ; contributors, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh [and twenty-one others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchloh, B. H. D., contributor.

Söntgen, Beate, editor.

Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior architecture--History.

Interior architecture.

Space (Architecture)--History.

Space (Architecture).

Identity (Psychology) in architecture--History.

Identity (Psychology) in architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book explores the historical connections between the notions of architectural interior, subjective space, human interiority, and represented space including virtual space. In the 18th century the notion of "interiority" understood as a paradigm of human subjectivity came to be articulated in a sustained way in architectural and visual, rather than only literary forms. While the notion of the interior and the processes of "interiorization" were, as Walter Benjamin demonstrated, the defining features of 19th-century bourgeois culture, it is the different forms of conceptual assault on, or deconstruction of interiority that define the approach to space and self in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book examines models of understanding "interiority" as these were developed in relation to notions of space and spatial experience.

Veranschaulichungsformen von Innerlichkeit finden in der Moderne in Darstellungen des Interieurs ihr prägnantes Bild. Die Beiträger der Publikation untersuchen die Verbindungen zwischen architektonischen Innenräumen, visuellen und literarischen Darstellungen von Interieurs und dem Konzept der Innerlichkeit vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute.Jene Darstellungen sind Effekt, aber auch Produzenten spezifischer Vorstellungen von Innerlichkeit als einer, wenn nicht der subjektkonstituierenden Praxis der Moderne.

Contents:

Front matter

Content

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Interiors and Interiority

Parade’s End: On Charles-Antoine Coypel’s Bed and the Origins of Inwardness

Staging Retreat: Designs for Bathing in Eighteenth-Century France

Living with Pictures: Goethe’s Interiors

Scenes from the Dressing Room: Theatrical Interiors in Fiction Film

In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside

‘Marching Thoughts on White Paper’: Margaret Cavendish’s Tools and Spaces of Proto-Novelistic Interiority

Interior in the Exterior: Marie-Antoinette’s Grotto at Trianon

Inside Out: Cézanne’s Perforated Wall

Mariology, Calvinism, Painting: Interiority in Pieter de Hooch’s Mother at a Cradle

Space, Intimacy, and Deformity: Stags at Louis XV’s Versailles

Non-European Artifacts and the Art Interior of the Late 1920's and Early 1930's

From the Household of the Soul to the Economy of Money: What Are Sixteenth-Century Merchants Doing in the Virgin Mary’s Interior?

A Room with a Temperature: On some Interiors of the 1830's/40's and the Discovery of the Energy Laws

Photographic Premises: Notes on the Exposure of Interiors around 1900

Contra the Großstadt: Mies van der Rohe’s Autonomy and Interiority

Inner and Outer Realms: Opaque Windows in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior Paintings

Rilke’s Magic Lantern: Figural Language and the Projection of “Interior Action” in the Rodin Lecture

Touch Screen: Skin as a Shifter between Body, Space, and Image in the Work of Birgit Jürgenssen

Wild Walls, Revolving Sets, Built Cuts: Staged Interiors in Contemporary Photography and Film Installation

Gerhard Richter’s Tisch: Memory Images and German Disavowal in 1962

Andrea Zittel’s “Small Liberties”: Siting Interiors in the Current Media Landscape

Unbelonging Interior: Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas

Contributors

Picture Credits

Index

Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 10, 2016).

ISBN:

3-11-038960-6

3-11-034045-3

OCLC:

950657122