Intimate Interiors (eBook, ePUB)

Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
Redaktion: Zanardi, Tara; Johns, Christopher M. S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350277625
• Artikelnr.: 67314764

Autorenporträt

Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. She has received fellowships from NEH, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fulbright Program, and the John Carter Brown Library. Christopher M. S. Johns was the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art at Vanderbilt University, USA, and a founding member of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Sánchez 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 Gómez 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