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Publication Date:
1 Oct 2011
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Estimated despatch 23 - 28 May 2024
Description
Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior examines the interior as a stage upon which modern life and lifestyles are consciously fashioned and performed, and from which modern identities are projected by and through design.
Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments - domestic interiors, sets for stage and film, exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafés and retail spaces - to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably-dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatise modern life.
Contents
General Introduction, Brenda Martin, Kingston University, UK
PART I: 1850-1900
Introduction
1. From Historic Dress to Modern Interiors: The Design Theory of Jakob von Falke, Eric Anderson, Kendall College of Art and Design, USA
2. Sensation and Interior Description in Nineteenth-Century London, Mark Taylor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
3. Wearing and Inhabiting the Past: Promoting the Colonial Revival in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America, Bridget A. May, Marymount University, USA
4. The Viennese Coffeehouse: A Legend in Performance, Tag Gronberg, University of London, UK
PART II: 1900-1940
Introduction
5. 'At Home' at the St James's: Dress, Décor and the Problem of Fashion in Edwardian Theatre, Christopher Breward, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
6. Designing Lucile Ltd: Couture and the Modern Interior 1900-1920s, Samantha Erin Safer, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
7. 'Paris, Hollywood': Viewing Parisian Modernity through the Lens of the Séeberger Brothers, 1909-39, Andrew Stephenson, University of East London, UK
8. Fashioning Thrift: Finding the Modern in Everyday Environments, Mary Anne Beecher, University of Manitoba, Canada
PART III: 1940-1970
Introduction
9. The Modern Home, Western Fashion and Feminine Identities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Turkey, Meltem Ö Gürel, Bilkent University, Turkey
10. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Performing Identity in Public and Private, Marilyn Cohen, Parsons The New School for Design, USA
11. Front and Back of House: Staging Queer Domesticity in New Canaan, Alice Friedman, Wellesley College, USA
12. Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US, Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire, UK
PART IV: 1970-PRESENT
Introduction
13. In-habiting Site: Contemporary Art Practices Within the Historic Interior, Helen Potkin, Kingston University, UK
14. Lobby Living: the Performance of Lifestyle, Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts, UK
15. 'Stay with Armani': Giorgio Armani and the Pursuit of Continuity, Stability and Legacy, John Potvin, University of Guelph, Canada
16. Designing for the Screen: the Creation of an Everyday Illusion, Teresa Lawler, Kingston University, UK
17. The Spectacular Form of Interior Architecture Under the New Conditions of Urban Space, Pierluigi Salvadeo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Notes
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