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This beautiful illustrated book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the five hundred years. From 1450 to the present day, the home has been a constant focus of attention for artists, designers, architects, novelists, playwrights and, most recently, television producers. Homeowners today attach great significance and sentiment to the way their homes are represented. Offering a rich array of examples of depictions of the home, from records of important historic interiors, through letters and diaries, to sketches, photographs and paintings, this book deals with both public and private attitudes, featuring everything from grand decorative schemes to humble cottages. This is the first book of its kind with ten chapters and numerous feature spreads that offer in-depth analysis of specific genres or media of representation including : the home in Italian Renaissance painting and literature ; interiors in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama ; the real and the ideal in seventeenth-century Dutch art ; cultures of domesticity in image and text in eighteenth-century Britain ; the emergence of the interior in the novel in England ; French nineteenth-century visual culture and the interior ; displays of designs for the interior in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and America ; the architect and client in architectural Modernism ; the home as a metaphor in British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s and DIY and interior makeovers in British television.

Iconography --- Housekeeping --- Interior decoration in art. --- Interior decoration in literature. --- Décoration intérieure dans l'art --- Décoration intérieure dans la littérature --- 747 <4> --- 747 <73> --- 7.04 --- Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Europa --- Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- 7.04 Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- 747 <73> Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 747 <4> Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Europa --- Décoration intérieure dans l'art --- Décoration intérieure dans la littérature --- Interior decoration in art --- Interior decoration in literature --- Interior decoration - History --- Television - Stage-setting and scenery --- Theaters - Stage-setting and scenery