Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design, 1850-1920

Description

Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it addresses an overlooked area of modernity: the domestic sphere and its conception and representation in art, literature and material culture. Scholars from the US, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Belgium offer fresh and exciting interpretations of artworks, texts and modern homes. Comparative and interdisciplinary, it shows through a series of case-studies in literature, art and architecture, how modernity was expressed through domestic life at the turn of the century in France and Belgium. Dedication Contents List of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultures of domestic space in the nineteenth century • Claire Moran Part 1: Representing the Domestic Interior 1 ‘Louis-Philippe ou l’intérieur’: The emergence of the modern interior in the visual culture of the July Monarchy • Matteo Piccioni 2 Shattered spaces: The domestic interior in nineteenth-century French literature • Anne Green 3 Art and domestic space: Continuity and change in private collectors’s interiors in Belgium, c. 1830–1930 • Ulrike Müller and Marjan Sterckx 4 Inside/out: Modernity and the domestic interior in Belgian art and literature • Claire Moran 5 A place to grieve: Georges Rodenbach, Marcel Proust • Nathalie Aubert 6 ‘Cromedeyre tout entier est une seule maison.’ The domestic interior in Jules Romains’s Cromedeyre-le-Vieil • Dominique Bauer Part 2: Gender and Domestic Space 7 Impressionist interiors and modern womanhood: The representation of domestic space in the art of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt • Sinéad Furlong-Clancy 8 Bricolage and the domestic interior in the French feminine press of the 1860s and 1870s, from La Ménagère to Stéphane Mallarmé’s La Dernière Mode • Caroline Ardrey 9 The bourgeoisie, their homes and sexualities in Colette’s • Claudine Aina Marti Part 3: Aesthetics and the Domestic Interior 10 Missing affinities? Brussels Art Nouveau and Belgian Symbolism • Aniel Guxholli 11 Villa Khnopff: The home of an artist and the palace of art • Maria Golovteeva 12 The bedroom as metonymic portrait: ekphrasis, Balzac and Impressionism in the nineteenth century • Jill Owen 13 Private rooms of the Cubist still life • Anna Jozefacka Notes Index