Research Catalog

Title

Modernism and the architecture of private life / Victoria Rosner.

Author

Rosner, Victoria.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xi, 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life traces the unexpected ways in which certain ideas, motifs, and techniques migrated among different art forms in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England, finding related expression in literature, art, interior design, and architecture. British modernist writers, together with artists, architects, and designers were collectively engaged in a far-reaching and multilayered project to redefine the form and meaning of middle-class domesticity and to rewrite the relationship between gender and space. Unraveling the apparent paradox of modernist domesticity, Victoria Rosner tells the story of the creation of an experimental, unstructured, and embodied kind of private life, the kind of life we still call "modern.""--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Gender and culture

Uniform Title

Gender and culture.

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Knowledge and learning
• Architecture
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Architecture, Domestic, in literature
• Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
• Space (Architecture) in literature
• Personal space in literature
• Dwellings in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Privacy in literature
• Home in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-210) and index.

Contents

1. Kitchen table modernism -- 2. Frames -- 3. Thresholds -- 4. Studies -- 5. Interiors.

ISBN

• 0231133049 (acid-free paper)
• 0231507879

LCCN

2004058289

OCLC

• ocm56491054
• SCSB-5134212

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries