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Zusatztext I do not know of a recent text which presents such a complete overview [of domestic interiors] Informationen zum Autor Georgina Downey is Visiting Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Georgina Downey is an independent scholar and Visiting Fellow in the Graduate Art History Program at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She lectures on a sessional basis at the South Australian School of Art and the University of Adelaide, and she has recently served on the Board of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. Her writings have appeared in Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2013), the proceedings of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA) Conference, Brisbane 2010 , the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art , the Journal of Australian Studies , the Journal of Australian Cultural History , Broadsheet , Artlink and Photofile . She is the editor of the recently published collection of commissioned papers entitled Domestic Interiors: Representing Home from the Victorians to the Moderns (Bloomsbury, 2013). Klappentext Taking a room by room approach, this book explorers how representations of domestic space have embodied changing values from the Victorians to the moderns. Vorwort Taking a room by room approach, Domestic Interiors explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing values from the Victorians to the moderns. Zusammenfassung Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Georgina Downey, University of Adelaide, AustraliaVerandas: Spaces without walls - the Veranda in Colonial Singapore, Brenda Martin, Kingston University London, UKHalls and Corridors: Spaces Between and Beyond, Trevor Keeble, Kingston University London, UKDrawing Rooms: A Backward Glance: Fashioning an Individual Drawing Room, Anne Anderson, University of Exeter, UKDining Rooms: Measuring the Gap between the Edwardians and the Moderns, John Turpin, University of Washington State, USAStudios: Live (Red) Matter; Matisse's l'Atelier rouge, Julieanna Preston, Massey University, New ZealandKitchens: from warm workshop to kitchenscape, Imma Forino, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyBathrooms: Plumbing the Canon: the bath tub nudes of Alfred Stevens, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Bonnard reconsidered, Georgina Downey, University of Adelaide, AustraliaBedrooms: Corporeality and Subjectivity, Francesca Berry, University of Birmingham, UKHidden Spaces: cavities, attics and cellars: Morbid secrets and threatening discoveries, Mark Taylor, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaSelect BibliographyNotesIndex...
