Intimate interiors : Sex, politics, and material culture in the eighteenth-century bedroom and boudoir. / edited by Tara Zanardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johns, Christopher M. S., editor.

Zanardi, Tara, editor.

Series:

Material Culture of Art and Design.

Material Culture of Art and Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Interior decoration.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces - motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetite for solace and comfort - led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the eighteenth century. By examining the architectural, visual, and material culture of eighteenth-century spaces, Intimate Interiors foregrounds the interrelated concepts of intimacy, privacy, informality, and sociability in order to show how these ideas played an increasingly integral role in the period's architectural and material design. Across eleven innovative chapters that explore issues of gender, politics, travel, exoticism, imperialism, sensorial experiences, identity, interiority, and modernity, this volume demonstrates how intimacy was a fundamental goal in the planning of private quarters. In doing so, the political nature of private spaces is uncovered, whilst highlighting the contradictions and complexities of these highly performative "private" interiors. Employing distinct methodological perspectives across various geographical sites, from Turkey to Versailles, Britain to Benin, Intimate Interiors draws as-yet untraced connections between Enlightenment Europe, imperial outposts, and major metropolitan centers across the globe..

Contents:

List of Contributors List of Plates List of Figures Foreword Introduction, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) and Christopher M.S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022) Part 1: Power, Authority, Agency, Privacy 1. Sex, Lies, and Books: Staging Identity in the Comte d'Artois's cabinet turc, Ashley Bruckbauer (Independent Scholar, USA) 2. Enlightenment Naples Imagines Imperial China: Queen Maria Amalia's Chinoiserie Boudoir, Christopher M. S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022) 3. "Who Let the Dogs In?": The Hundezimmer in the Amalienburg Palace, Christina Lindeman (University of South Alabama, USA) 4. Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the Politics of the Bedroom, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) Part 2: Staging Identity and Performing Sociability 5. A Stage for Wealth and Power in Eighteenth-Century Lima the Estrado of Doña Rosa Juliana Sanchez de Tagle, First Marchioness of Torre Tagle, Jorge Rivas (Denver Art Museum, USA) 6. An Artist's Bedrooms: Angelica Kauffman in London and Rome, Wendy Wassyng Roworth (University of Rhode Island, USA) 7. The Mask in the Dressing Room: Cosmetic Discourses and the Masquerade Toilet in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Sandra Gomez Todo (Independent Scholar, Spain) Part 3: Hidden Lives and Interiority 8. Mythologies of the Boudoir: Jacques-Louis David's The Loves of Paris and Helen, Dorothy Johnson (University of Iowa, USA) 9. Political Interiority and Spatial Seclusion in West African Royal Sleeping Rooms, Katherine Calvin (Kenyon College, USA) 10. On the Wings of Perfumed Reverie: Multisensory Construction of Elsewhere and Elite Female Authority in Marie-Antoinette's Boudoir Turc, Hyejin Lee (Independent Scholar, USA) 11. "Virginian Luxuries" at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Maurie McInnis (Stony Brook University, USA) Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350302068

1350302066

9781350277625

1350277622

9781350277618

1350277614

OCLC:

1368205353