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Imagined interiors : representing the domestic interior since the Renaissance / edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant ; with assistance from Harriet McKay.
Title & Author:

Imagined interiors : representing the domestic interior since the Renaissance / edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant ; with assistance from Harriet McKay.

Publication:

London : V & A Pub. ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006.

Description:

304 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296) and index.
1. Introduction / Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant -- pt. 1. Developing a domestic culture, 1400-1750 -- 2. Representing the domestic interior in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy : from the birth of the virgin to palaces of cheese / Flora Dennis -- Fifteenth-century interiors in the Netherlands / Luke Syson -- Dismembering the home in Renaissance Italy / Ann Matchette -- 3. Home, household and domesticity in drama in early modern London / Catherine Richardson -- Domestic life : instructing on the art of living well / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim -- Renaissance prints and the home / Elizabeth Miller -- 4. Between reality and artful fiction : the representation of the domestic interior in seventeenth-century Dutch art / John Loughman -- Cataloguing the domestic : inventories / Giorgio ̃Riello -- pt. 2. The interior defined, 1650-1900 -- 5. Eighteenth-century English interiors in image and text / Hannah Greig -- Representing rooms : plans and other drawings / Michael Snodin -- Inside the interior : furniture and its inner spaces in eighteenth-century France / Carolyn Sargentson -- Eroticizing the interior / Karen Harvey -- 6. 'One's self, and one's house, one's furniture' : from object to interior in British fiction, 1720-1900 / Charlotte Grant -- Picturing domesticity : the cottage genre in late eighteenth-century Britain / John Styles -- Modelling houses : the killer cabinet house / Halina Pasierbska -- Temperance and the domestic ideal / Mark Jones -- 7. Lived perspectives : the art of the French nineteenth-century interior / Francesca Berry -- Managing and making the home : domestic advice books / Jane Hamlett -- Advertising interiors and interiors in advertising / Amanda Gisling-Budd -- pt. 3. Displaying the modern home, 1850 to the present -- 8. Displaying designs for the domestic interior in Europe and America, 1850-1950 / Jeremy Aynsley -- Reading, the child and the home : illustrated children's books in late nineteenth-century Britain / Rebecca Preston -- Photographing home / Trevor Keeble -- 9. The twentieth-century architectural interior : representing modernity / Tim Benton -- Hollywood studio design : the great hall of Xanadu / Christopher Frayling -- Designing lifestyles : retail catalogues / Harriet McKay -- 10. 'Anthropology at home' : domestic interiors in British film and fiction of the 1930s and 1940s / Rod Mengham -- The 'West Indian' front room : migrant aesthetics in the home / Michael McMillan -- 11. Dream homes and DIY : television, new media and the domestic makeover / Viviana Narotzky -- Ethnographic representations of the home / Inge Maria Daniels -- Modernism on holiday / Olivier Richon and Alexandra McGlynn.
Summary:

'Imagined Interiors' offers a study of the ideas that have shaped the domestic interior in the West over the last 500 years. Looking at an array of depictions of the home, this book deals with both public and private attitudes to the domestic interior, and features various things from grand decorative schemes to homely cottages.

ISBN:

1851774920 (hbk.)
9781851774920 (hbk.)
1851774939 (pbk.)
9781851774937 (pbk.)

Subject:

Interior decoration History.
Interior decoration in literature.
Interior decoration in art.
Television Stage-setting and scenery.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Décoration intérieure Histoire.
Décoration intérieure dans la littérature.
Décoration intérieure dans l'art.
Télévision Décors.
Théâtre Décors.
21.84 interior design and decoration.
Interior decoration
Woningen.
Interieurs.
décoration intérieure maison Renaissance 21e s. (début)
Inredning historia.
Inredning i konsten.
Inredning i litteraturen.
Teaterdekorationer.
1400-1999

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Aynsley, Jeremy.
Grant, Charlotte.
Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain). Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249013
Call No.: BIB 178582
Status: Available

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