Imagined interiors : representing the domestic interior since the Renaissance /
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| Imprint: | London : V&A Pub. ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006. |
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| Description: | 304 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6160229 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part 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
- Fifteenth-Century Interiors in the Netherlands
- Dismembering the Home in Renaissance Italy
- 3. Home, Household and Domesticity in Drama in Early Modern London
- Domestic Life: instructing on the art of living well
- Renaissance Prints and the Home
- 4. Between Reality and Artful Fiction: the representation of the domestic interior in seventeenth-century Dutch art
- Cataloguing the Domestic: inventories
- Part 2. The Interior Defined, 1650-1900
- 5. Eighteenth-Century English Interiors in Image and Text
- Representing Rooms: plans and other drawings
- Inside the Interior: furniture and its inner spaces in eighteenth-century France
- Eroticizing the Interior
- 6. 'One's self, and one's house, one's furniture': from object to interior in British fiction, 1720-1900
- Picturing Domesticity: the cottage genre in late eighteenth-century Britain
- Modelling Houses: the Killer Cabinet House
- Temperance and the Domestic Ideal
- 7. Lived Perspectives: the art of the French nineteenth-century interior
- Managing and Making the Home: domestic advice books
- Advertising Interiors and Interiors in Advertising
- Part 3. Displaying the Modern Home, 1850 to the Present
- 8. Displaying Designs for the Domestic Interior in Europe and America, 1850-1950
- Reading, the Child and the Home: illustrated children's books in late nineteenth-century Britain
- Photographing Home
- 9. The Twentieth-Century Architectural Interior: representing Modernity
- Hollywood Studio Design: the Great Hall of Xanadu
- Designing Lifestyles: retail catalogues
- 10. 'Anthropology at Home': domestic interiors in British film and fiction of the 1930s and 1940s
- The 'West Indian' Front Room: migrant aesthetics in the home
- 11. Dream Homes and DIY: television, new media and the domestic makeover
- Ethnographic Representations of the Home
- Modernism on Holiday
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Picture credits
