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“Heraldic Fantasies in Blue and Red and Silver”: Orientalism, Luxury and Social Corruption in the South Sea Directorial Houses

Eric Weichel

Eric Weichel

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In 1721, at the height of the social crisis caused by one of the worst financial collapses the emerging stock-market system had yet seen in Britain, an inventory of the houses of leading figures associated with the beleaguered South Sea...

Posturing for Authenticity: Embodying Otherness in Contemporary Interiors of Modern Yoga

Lauren Bird

Lauren Bird

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In an article entitled “The Most Beautiful Yoga Studios in New York City” from January 2012, online magazine Well&Good NYC outlines the parameters that define a “pretty” yoga studio—something, the authors claim, that is undeniably important...

Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-positive Imaginative Geographies

Dennis S. Gouws

Dennis S. Gouws

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Though it was probably never [Edward] Said’s intention, the unfortunate grammatical intersection of the discourse he called Orientalism with the genre of Orientalist painting, or those European paintings of foreign—especially now Middle...

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

Victor Vargas

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Bloomsbury aesthetic of E. M. Forster that such critics as S. P. Rosenbaum and Ann Banfield identify in their analysis of the modernist movement of literary impressionism has long established the philosophical and aesthetic...

Introduction

John Potvin

John Potvin is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Canada, where he teaches on the intersections of art, interior design and fashion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Oriental interiors mark highly contested terrains and fraught spaces for the perceptions, conceptions and lived performances of gender and sexuality. The gendering of interior space in the East, differently though it is understood...

Traveling in Time and Space: The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress Theatre

Camille Bédard

Camille Bédard

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...A promenade in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) Park, Montreal reveals an unexpected building across Sherbrooke Street West: the Egyptian-inspired Empress Theatre. Mirage or reality? The movie theater is resolutely distinct from the surrounding...

The Exhibitionary Construction of the “Islamic Interior”

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...A “flying carpet” straight out of the Arabian Nights will soon float over the Louvre’s collection of Islamic art, one of the most spectacular in the world . . .“Islamic art” became the subject of public displays only in the late nineteenth...

At the Edge of Propriety: Rolf de Maré and Nils Dardel at the Hildesborg Estate

John Potvin

John Potvin is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Canada, where he teaches on the intersections of art, interior design and fashion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Hallwyska Museet in central Stockholm stands as a grand and spectacular testament to the rich legacy of one of Sweden’s most illustrious family dynasties. Resplendent and ornate, the family home cum museum in Hamngatan houses interiors...

“Flights of Unpractical Fancy”: Oriental Spaces at Sea from the Titanic to the Empress of Britain

Anne Massey

Anne Massey

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...One important, but overlooked, part of a history of Oriental interiors to date is a consideration of the spaces within the ocean liner. The interior design of these ships makes a unique contribution to this volume on the Oriental...

Bachelor Quarters: Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century Paris

Christopher Reed

Christopher Reed

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Japonisme occupies two very different places in the history of art. On one hand, it is the original primitivism. More than just the repertoire of exotic settings and motifs offered by earlier forms of Orientalism, Japanese art challenged...