- Title
- Interior design and architecture: critical and primary sources - sensory engagement
- Creator
- Taylor, Mark
- Relation
- Interior Design & Architecture: Critical & Primary Sources, Volume 2: Sensory Engagement p. ix-xx
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/interior-design-and-architecture-9781847889294/
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The collection of essays in this volume reflects how the interior impacts on the body and, reciprocally, demonstrates the body's impact on interior space. The volume title attempts to connect psychic interiority with spatial interiority and, to this extent, I am indebted to Debora Silverman's book Art Nouveau in France: Politics, Psychology, and Style (1989), which opened discussion to the visual reciprocity of the pathological mind, and the late nineteenth-century 'retreat into the interior'. Alongside this important work on visual culture is a growing awareness of the identification of gender and personality with the interior that emerged in mid- and late nineteenth-century novels, painting and architecture. This identification is particularly evident in the conceptual shift from the home as repository for inherited artefacts to the home as an expression of the character and personality of the occupant. In a manner similar to the sensationalist approach of eighteenth-century French architectural theory, the nineteenth century home as a collection of tastefully arranged furnishings was designed to arouse feelings and display imagination.
- Subject
- interior design; psychic interiority; spatial interiority; visual culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055920
- Identifier
- uon:15956
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781847889621
- Language
- eng
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