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HA331 THE INTERIOR IN FRENCH ART, DESIGN AND VISUAL CULTURE

Bibliography

Key Texts

Colomina, B.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media, MIT Press, 2000

Marcus, S.

Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, University of California Press, 1999

Sidlauskas, S.

Body , Place and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Silverman, D.

Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Si?cle France: Politics, Psychology and Style, University of California, 1989

Tiersten, L.

Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Si?cle France, University of California, 2001

Troy, N.

Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Yale University Press, 1991

Boundaries of the Interior

Apter, E.

‘Cabinet Secrets: Peep Shows, Prostitution and Bric-a-bracomania in the Fin-de-Si?cle Interior’, in Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn of the Century France, Cornell, 1991, pp. 39-64

Apter, E.,

‘Cabinet Secrets: Fetishism, Prostitution, and the Fin-de-Si?cle Interior’, Assemblage, no. 9 (June 1989), pp. 6-19

Archives Nationales,

Le Parisien chez-lui au dix-neuvieme siecle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1976

Benjamin, W.

‘Louis-Philippe or the Interior’, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, (1955), trans. Harry Zohn, London & New York, (1973), 4th ed. 1992, pp. 167-6

Deschamps, M.

‘Domestic Elegance: The French at Home’, in L’Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989, Thames & Hudson, 1989

Donzelot, J.

The Policing of Families, (1977), 1980

Elab, M. & A. Debarre

L’Invention de l’habitation moderne, Paris 1880-1914: Architectures de la vie priv?e, Paris, 1995

Habermas, J.

‘Social Structures of the Public Sphere’, Chapter 2 of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, (1962), trans. Thomas Burger, with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989, pp. 27-56

Hellerstein, E. O.

‘French Women and the Orderly Household, 1830-1870’, Proceedings of the Thurd Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 1976, pp. 378-89

MacMillan, J. F.,

Chapters 1 & 2 of Housewife or Harlot: The Place of Women in French Society 1870-1940, London, 1981, pp. 9-45

Marcus, S.

Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, University of California Press, 1999

Perrot, M,

A History of Private Life, vol. 4, trans. A. Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1990

Smith, B. G.

Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century, 1981

The Interior in Aesthetic Theory and Practice

Becherer, R.

Science Plus Sentiment: Cesar Daly’s Formula for Modern Architecture, Ann Arbor, 1984

Chu, P. ten-Doesschate

‘Lecoq de Boidbaudrin and Memory Drawing: A Teaching Course Between Idealism and Naturalism’, in G. P. Weisberg (ed.), The European Realist Tradition, 1982, pp. 242-87

Crary, J.

Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century, MIT Press, 1990

Daly, C.

L’Architecture privee au XIXme siecle sous Napoleon III; nouvelles maisons de Paris et des environs, 3 vols.,1864

Duranty, E.,

‘La Nouvelle peinture’, (1876), trans. & repr. in C. Moffett (ed.), The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, exh. cat., Oxford, 1986, pp. 37-47 & pp. 477-84.

Garb, T.,

‘Amidst ‘a Veritable Flood of Painting’; The Union of Women Painters and Sculptors in context’, Chapter 2 of Sisters of the Brush: Women’s Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Yale University Press, 1994, pp. 19-41

Sidlauskas, S.,

‘Body into Space: Lecoq de Boisbaudran and the Rhetoric of Embodiment’, Chapter 1 of Body, Place and Self in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 6-19

Silver, K. E.

‘The Other Fin-de-Si?cle’, Art in America, December 1987, pp. 104-111

Ward, M.,

‘Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions’, The Art Bulletin, vol. 73, no. 4 (December 1991), pp. 599-622

Weisberg, G. P.,

Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900, exh. cat., Washington D. C., 1986

W?lfflin, H.,

‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Architecture’, Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893, intro. & trans. H. F. Mallrgrave & E. Ikonomou, Santa Monica, 1994, pp. 149-92

The Bourgeois Interior

Adler, K.,

‘The Suburban, the Modern and “Une Dame de Passy”’, The Oxford Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (1989) pp. 3-13

Garb, T.

‘Gustave Caillebotte’s Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity’, Chapter 1 of Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France, pp. 24-53

Gay, P.

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, vols. 1-3, 1984-1993

Groom, G.,

‘Interiors and Portraits’, K. Varnedoe (ed.), Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, Art Institute of Chicago, exh. Cat., 1995, pp. 178-229

Nochlin, L.,

‘The House is not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family’, R. Kendall & G. Pollock (eds.), Dealing with Degas: Perspectives of Women and the Politics of Vision, London, 1992, pp. 43-65.

Pollock, G.,

‘Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity’, Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London, 1988, pp. 50-90

Poster, M.,

‘Models of Family Structure’, Chapter 7 of Critical Theory of the Family, London, 1978, pp. 166-205

Sidlauskas, S.,

‘Degas and the Sexuality of the Interior’, Chapter 2 of Body, Place and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 20-60

Smith, B. G.

Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century, 1981

Walton, W.

‘Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the Bourgeois Household’, Chapter 3 of France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 1992, pp. 70-113

Zola, E.

Pot-Bouille (translated as Pot-Luck), 1884.

The Mother and Child Inside

Berry, F.

‘Maman is my Muse: The Maternal Body as Motif and Metaphor in Edouard Vuillard’s Intimisme’ unpublished manuscript.

Jacobus, M.

First Things: The Maternal Imaginary in Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1995

Kristeva, J.

‘Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini’, (1975) in L. S. Roudiez (ed.), Desire in Language, 1977

Mitchell, J. (ed.)

The Selected Melanie Klein, 1986

Pollock, G.

‘The Child of Modernity 1895-1915’, Chapter 6 of Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women, Thames & Hudson, 1998, pp. 184-213

Pollock, G.

‘The Maid and the Mother in the Color Prints of 1891’, Chapter 5 of Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women, Thames & Hudson, 1998, pp. 156-83

Pollock, G.

‘On Mary Cassatt’s Reading Le Figaro or the Case of the Missing Woman’, G. Pollock & P. Florence, Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life and Death, G & B Arts, 2001, pp. 227-273

Pollock, G.

‘The Child of Modernity’, Chapter 6 of Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women, Thames & Hudson, 1998, pp. 184-213

Sidlauskas, S.,

‘John Singer Sargent’s Interior Abysses: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit’, Chapter Three in Body, Place and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 61-90

Steedman, C.

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority 1780-1930, Virago, 1995

The Psychologised Interior

Berry, F.,

‘Inside the Psychologised Interior’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 25, no. 2 (2002), pp. 156-61

Goncourt, E. de

La Maison d’un artiste, 2 vols., Paris, (1881), 1931

Huysmans, J.-K.

A Rebours (Against Nature), 1884

Hyman, T.,

‘Intimacy and Interiority’, Chapter 1 of Bonnard, 1998, pp. 34-63

Sidlauskas, S.,

‘The “Surface of Existence”: Edouard Vuillard’s Mother and Sister of the Artist’ Chapter 4 of Body, Place and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 91-123

Silverman, S.,

‘The Brothers de Goncourt between History and the Psyche’ and ‘Psychologie Nouvelle’, Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Si?cle France: Politics, Psychology and Style, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1989

Women and Interior Decoration

Auslander, L.

Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France, University of California Press, 1996

Auslander, L.,

‘The Gendering of Consumer Practices in Nineteenth-Century France’, in de Grazia, V. [ed.], The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, California, 1996, pp. 79-112

Beetham, M.,

‘Introduction’ to A Magazine of Her Own: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, Routledge, 1996

Berry, F.,

‘Designing the Reader’s Interior: Subjectivity and the Woman’s Magazine in Early Twentieth-Century France’, Journal of Design History, forthcoming 2005

Higonnet, A.,

‘Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe’, Radical History Review, vol. 38, 1987, pp. 16-36

Tiersten, L.

Chapters 4 & 5 of Marianne in the Market: Envisaging Consumer Society in Fin-de-Si?cle France, University of California Press, 2001

Tiersten, L.,

‘The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris’, in C. Reed, Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, Thames & Hudson, 1996, pp. 18-32

Walton, W.

‘“To Triumph before Feminine Taste”: Female Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition’, Chapter 2 of France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 1992, pp. 49-69

Wolff, J.

‘The Invisible Fl?neuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity’, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 2, no. 3, 1985, pp. 37-46

Decoration, the Decorative and the Avant-Garde Interior

Benjamin, R.

‘The Decorative Landscape: Fauvism and the Arabesque of Observation’, The Art Bulletin, vol. 75, no. 2 (June 1993), pp. 295-316

Blau, E. & N. Troy

Architecture and Cubism, MIT Press, 1997

Board, M. L.,

‘Constructing Myths and Ideologies in Matisse’s Odalisques’, Genders, no. 5, Summer 1989, pp. 21-49

Bowman, S.

A Fashion for Extravagance, Bell & Hyman, 1985

Cottington, D.,

‘The Maison Cubiste and the meaning of Modernism in Pre-1914 France’, Chapter 1 of Blau, E. & Troy, N. [eds.], Architecture and Cubism, Massachusetts & Montreal, 1997, pp. 17-40

Fer, B.,

‘Luxury, Utility and the decorative’ [pp. 149-53] and ‘Matisse’ [pp. 158-62] in Realism, Rationalism and Surrealism: art between the wars, Yale/Open University Press, 1993

Florman, L.,

‘The Flattening of “Collage”’, October, no. 102, Fall 2002, pp. 59-86

Gronberg, T.

‘D?coration: Modernism’s “Other”’, Art History, vol. 15, no. 4, December 1992, pp. 547-552

Robinson, J. H.,

‘”Hi Honey, I’m Home”: Weary (Neurasthenic) Businessmen and the Formulation of a Serenely Modern Aesthetic’, Chapter 7 in C. Reed [ed.], Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, Thames & Hudson, 1996, pp. 98-112

Troy, N.,

‘Fashion, Art and the Marketing of Modernism’ and ‘Theater and the Spectacle of Fashion’, Chapters 1 and 2 of Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion, MIT Press, 2003

Troy, N.,

‘Domesticity, Decoration and Consumer Culture: Selling Art and Design in Pre-World War I France’, Chapter 8 in C. Reed [ed.], Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, Thames & Hudson, 1996, pp. 113-129

Wollen, P.

‘Out of the Past: Fashion/Orientalism/The Body’, Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture, 1993

The Photographic Interior

Becherer, R.

‘Past Remembering: Robert Mallet-Stevens’s Architecture of Duration’, Assemblage, no. 31, December 1996, pp. 16-41

Becherer, R.,

‘Picturing Architecture Otherwise: the voguing of the Maison Mallet-Stevens’, Art History, vol. 23, no. 4, November 2000, pp. 559-598

McCauley, E. A,

‘Braquehais and the Photographic Nude’, Chapter 4 of Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris 1848-1871, 1994, pp. 149-94

Mus?e Carnavalet,

Eugene Atget, 1857-1927: int?rieurs parisiens, photographies, exh. Cat., 1982

Nesbit, M.

‘In the Absence of the Parisienne…’, in B. Colomina (ed.), Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992

Nesbit, M.,

‘The Artists’, ‘The Building Industry’ and ‘The Second and Third Albums’, Atget’s Seven Albums, Yale University Press, 1992

Rice, S.

Parisian Views, MIT Press, 1997

Solomon-Godeau, A.,

‘The Other Side of Venus: The Visual Economy of Feminine Display’, in V. de Grazia [ed.], The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, California, 1996, pp. 113-150

Vaillant, O.

‘Robert Mallet-Stevens: Architecture, Cinema and Poetics’, in F. Penz & M. Thomas, Cinema and Architecture, British Film Institute, 1997, pp. 28-33

Fashioning and Exhibiting the Modern Interior

Benton, C.

‘Le Corbusier: Furniture and the Interior’, Journal of Design History, vol. 3, nos. 2 & 3, 1990, pp. 103-24

Camard, F.

Ruhlmann: Master of Art Deco, Thames & Hudson, 1993

Dufr?ne, M.

Authentic Art Deco Interiors from the 1925 Paris Exhibition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989

Gronberg, T.

Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris, Manchester University Press, 1998

Gronberg, T.,

‘Speaking Volumes: the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau’, Oxford Art Journal, 1992, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 58-69

Le Corbusier,

‘Iconology’ and ‘Type Needs/Type Furniture’, from The Decorative Art of Today’, MIT Press/Architectural Press, 1987

Loos, A.,

‘Men’s Fashion’, ‘Men’s Hats’, ‘Footwear’, ‘Shoemakers’, ‘Underclothes’ from Spoken into the Void: Collected Essays 1897-1900, Opposition Books, 1987

Lubbock, J.

‘Adolf Loos and the English Dandy’, Architectural Review, August 1983, vol. CLXIX, no. 1038, pp. 43-9

McLeod, M.,

‘Undressing Architecture: Fashion, Gender and Modernity’, in D. Fausch et. Al., Architecture: In Fashion, Princeton, 1994, pp. 38-83

Troy, N.,

‘Reconstructing Art Deco: Purism, the Department Store and the Exposition of 1925’, Chapter 4 of Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 159-226

Wigley, M.,

‘White Out: Fashioning the Modern’, in D. Fausch et. Al., Architecture: In Fashion, Princeton, 1994, pp. 148-269

Wigley, M.,

‘White Out: Fashioning the Modern [Part 2],’ Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture, vol. 22, 1993/1994, pp. 6-49

Performing the Modernist Interior

Beckett, J.,

‘The Abstract Interior’, in Towards a New Art: Essays on the background to abstract art 1910-1920, Tate Gallery, 1980, pp. 90-124

Colomina, B.,

‘The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism’, in B. Colomina (ed.), Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, pp. 73-128

Overy, P.,

‘The Cell in the City’, Chapter 6 of Blau, E. & Troy, N. [eds.], Architecture and Cubism, Massachusetts & Montreal, 1997, pp. 117-40

Troy, N.,

Section on Mondrian’s Paris studio [pp. 135-42] in ‘Total Abstraction: Color in Space’ Chapter 4 of The De Stijl Environment, MIT, 1983

Wigglewsorth, S.,

‘Maison de Verre: Sections through an in-vitro conception’, The Journal of Architecture, 1998, pp. 263-85

Surreal Interiors

Arts Council of Great Britain

Max Ernst: Prints, Collages and Drawings, 1919-72, 1975

Benjamin, W.

The Arcades Project, translation of Passagen-Werk, 1999

Foster, H.

‘Outmoded Spaces’, Chapter 6 of Compulsive Beauty, MIT, 1993, pp. 156-91

 

La R?volution Surr?aliste, vols. 1-12, 1924-1929

 

La Surr?alisme au service de la r?volution, vols. 1-6, 1930-33

Aragon, L.

Paris Peasant (1924), 1971

Breton, A.

Nadja, (1928), 1960

Buck-Morss, S.

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, MIT Press, 1989

Freud, S.

‘The Uncanny’, 1919, translated and reproduced in Penguin Freud Library, vol. 14, Art and Literature, pp. 335-76

Mical, T. (ed.)

Surrealism and Architecture, Routledge, forthcoming 2005

Rainwater, R. (ed.)

Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism. A retrospective of the artists books and prints, New York Public Library & Oxford University, 1986

Vidler, A.

‘Homes for Cyborgs’, in C. Reed (ed.), Not at Home, Thames & Hudson, 1996, pp. 161-78

French Art / Culture / Society

Benton, T & C. with Sharp, D.

Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, Open University, 1975

Brunhammer, Y. & Tise, S.

French Decorative Art: The Soci?t? des Artistes D?corateurs 1900-1942, Flammarion, 1990

Clausen, M.

Frantz Jourdain and the Samaritaine: Art Nouveau Theory and Criticism, 1987

House, J.

‘Curiosit?’, in R. Hobbs (ed.), Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France 1850-1900, Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 33-57

Marlais, M.

Conservative Echoes in Fin-de-Si?cle Parisian Art Criticism, 1992

Miller, M.

The Bon March?: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, Princeton University Press, 1981

Offen, K.

‘Depopulation, Nationalism and Feminism in Fin-de-Si?cle France’, American Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 3, June 1984

Saisselin, R.

Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot, Thames & Hudson, 1985

Schwartz, V.

Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Si?cle Paris, University of California Press, 1998

Walton, W.

France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 1992

Ward, M.

Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde, University of Chicago Press, 1996

Weber, E.

France, Fin-de-Si?cle, Harvard University Press, 1986

Weisberg,

‘Redefining Genre 1859-1900’, in Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900, Washington, 1995, pp. 32-67

Weisberg, G. P.

Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979

Weisberg, G. P.,

The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900, exh. Cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980

Williams, R. H.

Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France, University of California Press, 1982

Zeldin, T.

France 1848-1945, 1973

The Family / Domestic Space / The Interior: General Texts

Bryden, I. & Floyd, J.

Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior, Manchester University Press, 1999

Certeau, M. de

The Practice of Everyday Life, (1974), 1984

Cieraad, I. (ed.)

At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space, Syracuse, 1999

Engels, F.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884

Goffman, E.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Penguin, 1959

Gronberg, T.,

‘The Inner Man: Interiors and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2001, pp. 69-99

McKellar, S & P. Sparke (eds.)

Interior Design and Identity, Manchester University Press, 2004

Perkins-Gilman, C.

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ (1892), in J. B. Dock (ed.), Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and the History of its Publication and Reception, 1998, pp. 27-42

Poe, E. Allan

‘The Philosophy of Furniture’ in The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 1934, pp. 462-6

Rand, R. & J. M. Bianco

Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, 1997

Reed, C. (ed.)

Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, Thames & Hudson, 1996

Sennett, R.

The Fall of Public Man, 1977

Tristram, P.

Living Space in Fact and Fiction, Routledge, 1989

Veblen, T.

The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899

Spatial Theories

Bachelard, G.

The Poetics of Space, (1958), 1964

Colomina, B. (ed.)

Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992

Lefebvre, H.

The Production of Space, trans. 1991

Pile, S.

The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity, Routledge, 1996

Vidler, A.

The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely, MIT Press, 1992

Psychoanalysis

Ellenberger, H. F.

The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, 1970

Flugel, J. C.

The Psycho-Analytic Study of the Family, 1921

Freud, S.

‘The Uncanny’, (1919), The Standard Edition, vol. 17, pp. 217-56

Freud, S.

‘Childhood Memories and Screen Memories’, (1901), The Standard Edition, vol. 6, pp. 43-52

French Literature

Flaubert, G.

Madame Bovary, 1856

Proust, M.

A la recherche du temps perdu, vol. 1, (1913), 1996

Zola, E.

Therese Raquin, (1867), 1962

Zola, E.

L’Assommoir, (1877), 1970