Intimate Interiors
Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
Published on 20. April 2023
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-350-27760-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
An impressive and ambitious collection of essays, global in scope, which break exciting new ground on the subject of intimate interiors in the 18th century and how they functioned as a locus of meaning. * Melissa Hyde, Professor of Art History and Distinguished Teaching Scholar, University of Florida, USA * Intimate Interiors represents a significant contribution to eighteenth-century scholarship. Exploring several case studies from different geographies, the volume provides a variety of methodologies and critical perspective that goes far beyond specific subjects. * Miriam Cera, Associate Professor of Art History, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain * Ranging impressively across the eighteenth-century world, from colonial Peru to the early United States, and from continental Europe to the West African kingdom of Dahomey, this fascinating volume exposes the era's new sites of intimacy and secrecy as unexpected places of governance, power, and control. * Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Architecture, MIT, USA *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
103 color & 4 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-27760-1 (9781350277601)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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 Dona Rosa Juliana Sanchez 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 Gomez 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
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 Dona Rosa Juliana Sanchez 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 Gomez 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