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Oriental interiors : design, identity, space /

"Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Potvin, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Inside Orientalism: hybrid spaces, imaginary landscapes and modern interior design
  • The empty core of western aesthetics (versus the aesthetics of eastern intimacy): a reading of interior spaces and literary impressionism in E.M. Forster's A passage to India
  • The exhibitionary construction of the "Islamic interior"
  • Orientalism and David Hockney's male-positive imaginative geographies
  • The excessive Trompe l'Oeil: the saturated interior in Tears of the black tiger
  • Oriental interiors in eighteenth-century British women writers' novels
  • Bachelor quarters: Spaces of Japonisme in nineteenth-century Paris
  • Coming out of the China closet?: performance, identity and sexuality in the house beautiful
  • At the edge of propriety: Rolf De Maré and Nils Dardel at the Hildesborg Estate
  • "Heraldic fantasies in blue and red and silver": Orientalism, luxury and social corruption in the South Sea directorial houses
  • Promoting the colonial empire through French interior design
  • Paradise in the parlor: cozy corners and potted palms in western interiors, 1880-1900
  • Traveling in time and space: the cinematic landscape of the Empress Theatre
  • "Flights of unpractical fancy": oriental spaces at sea from the Titanic to the Empress of Britain
  • Posturing for authenticity: embodying otherness in contemporary interiors of modern yoga.