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Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

Editat de John Potvin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 2015
Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of eastern-inspired interiors from an orientalist perspective. Orientalist spaces in the West have taken numerous forms since the 18th century to the present day, and the fifteen chapters in this collection reflect that diversity, dealing with subjects as varied and engaging as harems, Turkish baths on RMS Titanic, Parisian bachelor quarters, potted palms, and contemporary yoga studios. It explores how furnishings, surface treatments, ornament and music, for example, are deployed to enhance the exoticism and pleasures of oriental spaces, looking across a range of international locations. Organized into three parts, each introduced by the editor, the essays are grouped by theme to highlight critical paths into the intersections between orientalist studies, spatial theory, design studies, visual culture and gender studies, making this essential reading for students and researchers alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472596635
ISBN-10: 1472596633
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 56 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Takes a multidisciplinary approach, engaging with a range of disciplines including interior design history, literature, oriental studies, gender studies, fashion, art history, and architectural history and theory

Notă biografică

John Potvin is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Canada, where he teaches on the intersections of art, interior design and fashion.

Cuprins

Introduction: Inside Orientalism: Hybrid Spaces and Modern Interior DesignJohn Potvin, Concordia University, CanadaSection I: Modes of Display and RepresentationIntroduction to Section IChapter 1: The Emptiness of Western Aesthetics Versus the Aesthetics of Eastern Intimacy: A Reading of Interior Spaces and (Colonial) Literary Impressionism in E. M. Forster's A Passage to IndiaVictor Vargas, Cogswell Polytechnic, USAChapter 2: The Exhibitionary Re-production of 'Islamic' ArchitectureSolmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, University of Colorado, USAChapter 3: Promoting the Colonial Empire through French Interior DesignLaura Sextro, University of Dayton, USAChapter 4: Orientalism and David Hockney's Male-positive Imaginative GeographiesDennis S. Gouws, Springfield College and the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies, AustraliaChapter 5: The Excessive Trompe l'Oeil: The Saturated Interior in Tears of the Black TigerMark Taylor, University of Newcastle, Australia and Michael J. Ostwald, University of Newcastle, AustraliaSection II: Gendered and Sexual IdentitiesIntroduction to Section IIChapter 6: On Oriental Interiors in Eighteenth-century British Women Writers' NovelsMarianna D'Ezio, Luspio University for International Studies of Rome, ItalyChapter 7: Bachelor Quarters: The Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century ParisChristopher Reed, Pennsylvania State University, USAChapter 8: Coming Out of the China Closet?: Performance, Identity and Sexuality in the House BeautifulAnne Anderson, Hon. Research Fellow Exeter University and Associate MIRC, Kingston University, UKChapter 9: Orientalism, Collecting and Shame: Inside Rolf de Maré's Hildesborg EstateJohn Potvin, Concordia University, CanadaSection III: Spaces and Markets of ConsumptionIntroduction to Section IIIChapter 10: Paradise in the Parlour: Potted Palms in Western Interiors, 1850 - 1914Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UKChapter 11: Traveling in Time and Space: The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress TheatreCamille Bédard, McGill University, CanadaChapter 12: Oriental Spaces at Sea: From the Titanic to the Empress of BritainAnne Massey, Middlesex University, UKChapter 13: Posturing for Authenticity: Embodying Otherness in Contemporary Interiors of Modern YogaLauren Bird, Queen's University, CanadaIndex

Recenzii

This is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of Eastern-influenced interiors. Potvin (Concordia Univ., Montreal) divides the essays into three parts: "Modes of Display and Representation," "Gendered and Sexual Identities," and "Spaces and Markets of Consumption." Highlighting design influences such as spatial arrangement, visual culture, gender, and design theory, the 13 essays look at furnishings, ornaments, and other components as they assist to create Oriental interiors. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.
This engaging collection of fifteen essays breaks new ground in the study of the neglected subject of the interior in relation to Orientalism, covering a range of examples from the 18th century to the present day, by scholars of art, architecture, film, literature, decorative arts and furniture and theatre design.
Oriental Interiors is a splendid collection of essays that take the reader on a journey through the visual, material and ideological aspects of its topic. The book explores the myriad ramifications of the concept of 'oriental interiors' and demonstrates that it is far more than style, being a complex mix of commerce, politics and consumption practices.