Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design, 1850-1920 (Material Culture of Art and Design)

## Material Culture of Art and Design Material Culture of Art and Design is devoted to scholarship that brings art history into dialogue with interdisciplinary material culture studies. The material components of an object-its medium and physicality-are key to understanding its cultural significance. Material culture has stretched the boundaries of art history and emphasized new points of contact with other disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, consumer and mass culture studies, the literary movement called "Thing Theory, " and materialist philosophy. Material Culture of Art and Design seeks to publish studies that explore the relationship between art and material culture in all of its complexity. The series is a venue for scholars to explore specific object histories (or object biographies, as the term has developed), studies of medium, and the procedures for making works of art, and investigations of art's relationship to the broader material world that comprises society. It seeks to be the premiere venue for publishing scholarship about works of art as exemplifications of material culture. The series encompasses material culture in its broadest dimensions, including the decorative arts (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles), everyday objects of all kinds (toys, machines, musical instruments), and studies of the familiar high arts of painting and sculpture. The series welcomes proposals for monographs, thematic studies, and edited collections. Introduction, Claire Moran (Queen's University Belfast, UK) -- Part 1: Representing the Domestic Interior -- 1. Louis-Philippe ou l'intérieur'. The Emergence of the scene of the Modern Interior in the visual culture of the July Monarchy, Matteo Piccioni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) -- 2. Shattered Spaces. The Domestic Interior in 19th-century French Literature, Anne Green (King's College London, UK) -- 3. Inside/Out: Modernity and the domestic Interior in Belgian art and literature, Claire Moran (Queen s University Belfast, UK) -- 4. The Bedroom as Portrait: Ekphrasis, Balzac, and Impressionism in the 19th century, Jill Owen (Indiana University, USA) -- Part 2: Gendered Domesticities -- 4. M re-M nag re: The Politics of Domestic Labour in Edouard Vuillard s Practice, Francesca Berry (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 5. Home in Colette's Claudine: A Contemporary Discussion on Non-Normative Dwellings, Aina Marti (University of Kent, UK) -- 6. Interior decoration and bricolage in the French feminine press of the 1860s and 1870s, from La M nag re to St phane Mallarm s La Derni re Mode, Caroline Ardrey (The Baudelaire Song Project, UK) Part -- 3: Aesthetics and the Domestic Interior -- 7. Brussels Art Nouveau and Symbolist Interiors, Aniel Guxholli (McGill University, Canada) -- 8. Villa Khnopff: the Home of an Artist and the Palace of Art, Maria Golovteeva (University of St Andrews, UK) -- 9. Cubist Still Life and the Private Interior, Anna Jozefacka (New York University, USA) -- 10. Irrevocably lost? Domestic space in George Rodenbach s Bruges-la-Morte and Marcel Proust s Du c t de chez Swann, Nathalie Aubert (Oxford Brookes University, UK) -- 11. Cromedeyre tout enti re est une seule maison. The Domestic Interior in Jules Romain s Cromedyre-le-Vieil, Dominique Bauer (KU Leuven, Belgium) Part -- 4: Displaying the Interior -- 12. From public representation to private aesthetics. Interiors of Belgian private art collectors, c. 1830-1930, Ulrike M ller (Ghent University and Antwerp University, Belgium) and Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University, Belgium) -- 13. Antiques at home. Collecting practices and the domestic interior in late nineteenth-century Antwerp, Ilja Van Damme (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 14. Installing Interiority: Practices of Artistic Display and the New Interior c. 1890, Alexandra Fraser (University of Michigan, USA)" Cover 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 "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."-- Provided by publisher

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.