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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Downey, Georgina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home in art.

Rooms in art.

Architecture and society--History--19th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

English edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Place of Publication:

London ; Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781472539410

1472539419

OCLC:

864899105