UnknownDowney, Georgina
Bloomsbury Academic (London, 2017) (eng) English9781474294072UnknownEnglish edition.ROOMS IN ART; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Schütte-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.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xii, 172 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Front matter
1. Verandas: Spaces Without Walls—The Veranda in Colonial Singapore 13–26
2. Halls and Corridors: Spaces Between and Beyond 27–38
3. Drawing Rooms: A Backward Glance—Fashioning an Individual Drawing Room 39–60
4. Dining Rooms: Measuring the Gap Between the Edwardians and the Moderns 61–74
5. Studios: Live (Red) Matter; Matisse’s L’Atelier Rouge 75–90
6. Kitchens: From Warm Workshop to Kitchenscape 91–110
7. Bathrooms: Plumbing the Canon—The Bathtub Nudes of Alfred Stevens, Edgar Degas and Pierre Bonnard Reconsidered 111–128
8. Bedrooms: Corporeality and Subjectivity 129–146
9. Hidden Spaces: Cavities, Attics and Cellars—Morbid Secrets and Threatening Discoveries 147–158