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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Constructing Identities and Interiors (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Constructing Identities and Interiors (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing
Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group
of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops,
bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and decor
to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European
architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form
and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in
1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a
visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house
was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and
distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key
interests of contemporary historians working in a range of
disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most
notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and
two, the role played by different spatial environments in the
production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining
historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical
analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's
contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual
and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In
doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this
historical period, but also into our own.
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