| The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity Contributor(s): Rice, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415384672 ISBN-13: 9780415384674 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Within the broad humanities field," Inhabiting the Doubled Interior "represents the first attempt to study the domestic interior as a specific concept. The book develops a new understanding of bourgeois domesticity by establishing the domestic interior as a context that emerged historically at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The arguments of the book are structured around a concept of the doubled interior. This novel concept recognizes that the interior emerged historically to mean both a space and an image of a space, as well as supporting material and immaterial forms of domestic experience. The book uses this concept to develop new ways of dealing with the historical evidence of the interior, and it allows an eclectic and novel array of historical and theoretical material to be brought together in a wide-ranging account of bourgeois domesticity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Decoration & Ornament - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Architecture | Historic Preservation - General |
| Dewey: 747.880 |
| LCCN: 2006018422 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.45" W x 9.38" (0.93 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism. The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, The Emergence of the Interior will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies. |