Intimate Interiors
Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
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Intimate Interiors
Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
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Available as an Open Access publication, Intimate Interiors explores how a growing desire for individual expression, the concealment of domestic labor and enslavement, and an increasing appetite for comfort and solace reshaped eighteenth-century interiors. By examining architectural, visual, and material culture, the book foregrounds the interconnected roles of intimacy, privacy, informality, and sociability in shaping the period's increasingly specialized domestic spaces.
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.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Vanderbilt University.
Table of Contents
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)
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Product details
| Published | Oct 31 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781350277632 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 103 color & 4 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Material Culture of Art and Design |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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