Research Catalog

Title

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment : a cultural history / edited by Stacey Sloboda.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

Sloboda, Stacey

Found In

Contained in (manifestation): A cultural history of the home. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350412354 9781472584250 (DLC) 2020030967 (OCoLC)1178867967

Description

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations, plans; 24 cm.

Summary

"Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850. Considering the interior as material, social and cultural artefact, this volume moves beyond conventional descriptive accounts of changing styles and interior design fashions, to explore in depth the effect on the interior of the materials, processes, aesthetic philosophies and cultural attitudes of the age. From the Palace of Versailles to Virginia coffeehouses, and from Chinoiserie bathhouses to the trading exchanges of the West Indies, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of themes including technological advancements, public spaces, gender and sexuality, and global movements in interior designs and decorations. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume provides the most authoritative and comprehensive survey of the history of interiors and interior architecture in the long eighteenth century"--

Series Statement

Cultural histories series

Uniform Title

• Cultural history of the home. Volume 4, Cultural history of the home in the Age of Enlightenment.
• Cultural histories series.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Interior decoration > History > 18th century
• Domestic space > History > 18th century
• Enlightenment
• Domestic space
• Interior decoration

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This book was written upon invitation to contribute to Bloomsbury's Cultural Histories, an important series of edited volumes that explores topics from the perspective of cultural history across a six-volume chronological set. [...] Written around 2020, the book is now presented as a standalone volume"-- Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-219) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: The Interior in the Age of Enlightenment / Stacey Sloboda -- 1. Beauty: Cultural Aesthetics in the Enlightenment Interior / Anne Nellis Richter -- 2. Technology: Cultural Transfer, Imitation, and Improvement of Materials and Surfaces of the Interior / Noémie Étienne -- 3. Designers, Professions, Trades: Conceiving and Making the Interior / Conor Lucey -- 4. Global Movements: Exoticism and Hybridity in the Globalized Interior / Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding -- 5. Private Spaces: Performing the Home / Mimi Hellman -- 6. Public Spaces: Staging Ritual and Shaping Identity / Laurel O. Peterson -- 7. Gender and Sexuality: The Desire of Decor / Michael Yonan -- 8. The Interior in the Arts: Literary and Visual Representations / Karen Lipsedge and Melinda McCurdy -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JQE 24-358

ISBN

• 9781350408012
• 1350408018
• 9781350408050
• 1350408050
• 9781350408029 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350408043 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350408036 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023020489

OCLC

1391330158

Title

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment : a cultural history / edited by Stacey Sloboda.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural histories series

Cultural histories series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-219) and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Added Author

Sloboda, Stacey, editor.

Found In:

Contained in (manifestation): A cultural history of the home. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350412354 9781472584250 (DLC) 2020030967 (OCoLC)1178867967

Other Form:

Online version: Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350408029 (DLC) 2023020490

Research Call Number

JQE 24-358