"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 chapters in this collection reflect that diversity, dealing with subjects as varied and engaging as harems, Turkish baths on RMS Titanic, Parisian bachelor quarters, potted palms, and contemporary yoga studios. It explores how furnishings, surface treatments, ornament and music, for example, are deployed to enhance the exoticism and pleasures of oriental spaces, looking across a range of international locations. Organized into three parts, each introduced by the editor, the essays are grouped by theme to highlight critical paths into the intersections between orientalist studies, spatial theory, design studies, visual culture and gender studies, making this essential reading for students and researchers alike"--
Inside Orientalism: Hybrid Spaces, Imaginary Landscapes and Modern Interior Design / John Potvin -- Section I: Representations -- Introduction to Section I -- 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 -- Section II: Gendered and Sexual Identities -- Introduction to Section II -- Oriental Interiors in Eighteenth-century British Women Writers' Novels / Marianna D'Ezio -- Bachelor Quarters: Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century Paris / Christopher Reed -- Coming Out of the China Closet? : Performance, Identity and Sexuality in the House Beautiful / Anne Anderson -- At The Edge Of Propriety : Rolf de Maré and Nils Dardel at the Hildesborg Estate / John Potvin -- Section III: Spaces and Markets of Consumption -- Introduction to Section III -- Heraldic Fantasies in Blue and Red and Silver : Orientalism, Luxury and Social Corruption in the South Sea Directorial Houses / Eric Weichel -- Promoting the Colonial Empire through French Interior Design / Laura Sexto -- Paradise in the Parlor : Cozy Corners and Potted Palms in Western Interiors, 1880-1900 / Penny Sparke -- Traveling in Time and Space : The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress Theatre / Camille Bédard -- Flights of Unpractical Fancy : Oriental Spaces at Sea from the Titanic to the Empress of Britain / Anne Massey -- Posturing for Authenticity : Embodying Otherness in Contemporary Interiors of Modern Yoga / Lauren Bird
Interior decoration--Psychological aspects