Designing the French Interior The Modern Home and Mass Media

by Lasc, Anca I.; Downey, Georgina; Taylor, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780857856593
• ISBN10: 0857856596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

Author Biography

Anca I. Lasc is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Design at Pratt Institute, New York City, USA.

Georgina Downey is an independent scholar and Visiting Fellow in the Graduate Art History Program at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor

Part 1: Sex, Dreams, and Desires: The Perversions of the Modern Interior
Introduction; Georgina Downey
Chapter 1 Rude Awakenings: Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle, Australia
Chapter 2 Embracing Intimacy: Inventing the Dream Bedroom, Fae Brauer, University of East London, UK
Chapter 3 Angels and Rebels: The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior, Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA
Chapter 4 Machines and Monsters: The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans’s À Rebours, Emilie Sitzia, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Chapter 5 The Salon des Arts Ménagers, the Mass Media and the Mechanical Housewife, Francesca Berry, University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter 6 La Maison Suspendue: Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine, Peter Olshavsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Part 2: Aesthetics, Anxiety, and Identity: Reproducing a Decadent Domesticity
Introduction, Anca I. Lasc
Chapter 7 The Interiorization of Identity: The Portrait Bust and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre-Revolutionary France, Ronit Milano, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Chapter 8 Félix Vallotton's Portable Keyhole: The Intimités Woodcut Series, Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA
Chapter 9 The Fin-de-siècle Poster: Destabilizing the 'Public' and 'Private' in the French Interior, Katie Brion, University of Michigan, USA
Chapter 10 Mode of a Modern Muse: Fashion and Interior in Vuillard's paintings of Misia Natanson"'; Jess Berry, Griffith University, Australia
Chapter 11 The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic, Elizabeth Melanson, University of Delaware, USA
Chapter 12 Modern Design through French Cinema in the Twenties, Nieves Fernández Villalobos, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Part 3: Intimacy, Longing and Performance: The Consumption and Display of the Celebrity Home
Introduction, Mark Taylor
Chapter 13 Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée's Photo-Interviews: Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press, Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, USA
Chapter 14 Spectacle in Review: The 19th Century Urban Mansion, Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate, University of Florida, USA
Chapter 15 Architecture, Modernity and the Art Market: The Montparnasse Artist at Home, Louise Campbell, Warwick University, UK
Chapter 16 Housing the New Dandy: Advertising Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1925" ; John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
Chapter 17 The Interior as Dandyisme: Reading the 'Villa Windsor', 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris, Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Chapter 18 Si ma cuisine m'était contée: Paris-Match and the Arts ménagers in the Fourth Republic, Guillaume De Syon, Albright College, USA
Conclusion, Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University, USA

Bibliography
Index