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This innovative book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last five hundred years.
Looking at a rich array of depictions of the home, including paintings, novels, television, film, diaries, sketches and photographs, Imagined Interiors deals with both public and private attitudes to the domestic interior and features everything from grand decorative schemes to homely cottages.
Published in association with the Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, it takes a completely new and original look at a subject not previously covered in this depth and breadth.
From 1450 to the present day, the home has been a constant focus of attention for artists, designers, architects, novelists, playwrights and, most recently, television producers. Homeowners today attached increasing significance and sentiment to the way their homes are represented. Imagined Interiors will be an indispensable work of reference and visual resource for those interested in interior design, social history and material culture.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction (p. 10)
• Part 1 Developing a Domestic Culture, 1400-1750
• 2 Representing the Domestic Interior in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy: from the birth of the Virgin to palaces of cheese (p. 22)
• Fifteenth-Century Interiors in the Netherlands (p. 46)
• Dismembering the Home in Renaissance Italy (p. 48)
• 3 Home, Household and Domesticity in Drama in Early Modern London (p. 50)
• Domestic Life: instructing on the art of living well (p. 68)
• Renaissance Prints and the Home (p. 70)
• 4 Between Reality and Artful Fiction: the representation of the domestic interior in seventeenth-century Dutch art (p. 72)
• Cataloguing the Domestic: inventories (p. 98)
• Part 2 The Interior Defined, 1650-1900 (p. 100)
• 5 Eighteenth-Century English Interiors in Image and Text (p. 102)
• Representing Rooms: plans and other drawings (p. 128)
• Inside the Interior: furniture and its inner spaces in eighteenth-century France (p. 130)
• Eroticizing the Interior (p. 132)
• 6 'One's self, and one's house, one's furniture': from object to interior in British fiction, 1720-1900 (p. 134)
• Picturing Domesticity: the cottage genre in late eighteenth-century Britain (p. 154)
• Modelling Houses: the Killer Cabinet House (p. 156)
• Temperance and the Domestic Ideal (p. 158)
• 7 Lived Perspectives: the art of the French nineteenth-century interior (p. 160)
• Managing and Making the Home: domestic advice books (p. 184)
• Advertising Interiors and Interiors in Advertising (p. 186)
• Part 3 Displaying the Modern Home, 1850 to the Present (p. 188)
• 8 Displaying Designs for the Domestic Interior in Europe and America, 1850-1950 (p. 190)
• Reading, the Child and the Home: illustrated children's books in late nineteenth-century Britain (p. 216)
• Photographing Home (p. 218)
• 9 The Twentieth-Century Architectural Interior: representing Modernity (p. 220)
• Hollywood Studio Design: the Great Hall of Xanadu (p. 240)
• Designing Lifestyles: retail catalogues (p. 242)
• 10 'Anthropology at Home': domestic interiors in British film and fiction of the 1930s and 1940s (p. 244)
• The 'West Indian' Front Room: migrant aesthetics in the home (p. 256)
• 11 Dream Homes and DIY: television, new media and the domestic makeover (p. 258)
• Ethnographic Representations of the Home (p. 274)
• Modernism on Holiday (p. 276)
• Notes (p. 278)
• Bibliography (p. 286)
• Index (p. 297)
• Picture credits (p. 304)

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