1st Edition
Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior
240 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer design and architectural historians. Established scholars and emerging researchers shed light on the methodological issues that arise... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Penny Sparke and Anne Massey ; No body’s place: on 18th-century kitchens, Carolyn Steedman; The many lives of Red House, Barbara Penner and Charles Rice; At home, 16 Tite Street, Richard W. Hayes; Writing home: the colonial memories of Lady Barker, 1870-1904, Emma Ferry; Body, room, photograph: negotiating identity in the self-portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell, Inga Fraser; Inside out: Elsa Schiaparelli, interiors, and autobiography, Tom Tredway; Illusion and delusion: validating the artificial interior, Gene Bawden; Jean Genet, or the interiors of marginality in 1930s Europe, Cristóbal Amunátegui; Mario Praz: autobiography and the object(s) of memory, Shax Riegler; Art, architecture and life: the interior of Casa de Vidro, the house of Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi, Aline Coelho Sanches Corato; Negotiating interiority: displacement and belonging in the ’autoportraits’ of Lydia Maria Julien, Harriet Riches; The private self: interior and the presenting of memory, Vesna Goldsworthy; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Anne Massey is a Professor of Design at Middlesex University, London, UK, and is a design writer and researcher.
Penny Sparke is a Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), a Professor of Design History and the Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London, UK.
