Screen LibraryOriental 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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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of eastern-inspired interiors from an orientalist perspective. Orientalist spaces in the West have taken numerous forms since the 18th century to the present day, and the fifteen c |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781472596635 (paperback) : 1472596633 (paperback) 9781472596642 (hardback) 1472596641 (hardback) 9781472596628 (ePDF) 1472596625 (ePDF) 9781472596659 (ePub) 147259665X (ePub) |
| Index Number: | NK2113 |
| CLC: | TU238.2 |
| Call Number: | TU238.2/O692 |
| Contents: | Inside Orientalism: hybrid spaces, imaginary landscapes and modern interior design / John Potvin -- 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 / Victor Vargas -- The exhibitionary construction of the "Islamic" interior / Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive -- Orientalism and David Hockney's male-positive imaginative geographies / Dennis S. Gouws --The excessive trompe l'oeil: the saturated interior in Tears of the black tiger / Mark Taylor and Michael J. Ostwald -- Orient |