Intimate Interiors: Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir(Material Culture of Art and Design)

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors List of Plates List of Figures Foreword Introduction, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) and Christopher M.S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022) Part 1: Power, Authority, Agency, Privacy 1. Sex, Lies, and Books: Staging Identity in the Comte d'Artois's cabinet turc, Ashley Bruckbauer (Independent Scholar, USA) 2. Enlightenment Naples Imagines Imperial China: Queen Maria Amalia's Chinoiserie Boudoir, Christopher M. S. Johns (Vanderbilt University, USA, until 2022) 3. Who Let the Dogs In?: The Hundezimmer in the Amalienburg Palace, Christina Lindeman (University of South Alabama, USA) 4. Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the Politics of the Bedroom, Tara Zanardi (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) Part 2: Staging Identity and Performing Sociability 5. A Stage for Wealth and Power in Eighteenth-Century Lima the Estrado of Doña Rosa Juliana Sánchez de Tagle, First Marchioness of Torre Tagle, Jorge Rivas (Denver Art Museum, USA) 6. An Artist's Bedrooms: Angelica Kauffman in London and Rome, Wendy Wassyng Roworth (University of Rhode Island, USA) 7. The Mask in the Dressing Room: Cosmetic Discourses and the Masquerade Toilet in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Sandra Gómez Todo (Independent Scholar, Spain) Part 3: Hidden Lives and Interiority 8. Mythologies of the Boudoir: Jacques-Louis David's The Loves of Paris and Helen, Dorothy Johnson (University of Iowa, USA) 9. Political Interiority and Spatial Seclusion in West African Royal Sleeping Rooms, Katherine Calvin (Kenyon College, USA) 10. On the Wings of Perfumed Reverie: Multisensory Construction of Elsewhere and Elite Female Authority in Marie-Antoinette's Boudoir Turc, Hyejin Lee (Independent Scholar, USA) 11. “Virginian Luxuries” at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Maurie McInnis (Stony Brook University, USA) Index

About the Author :
Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. She has received fellowships from NEH, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fulbright Program, and the John Carter Brown Library. Christopher M. S. Johns was the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art at Vanderbilt University, USA, and a founding member of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

Review :
An impressive and ambitious collection of essays, global in scope, which break exciting new ground on the subject of intimate interiors in the 18th century and how they functioned as a locus of meaning. Intimate Interiors represents a significant contribution to eighteenth-century scholarship. Exploring several case studies from different geographies, the volume provides a variety of methodologies and critical perspective that goes far beyond specific subjects. Ranging impressively across the eighteenth-century world, from colonial Peru to the early United States, and from continental Europe to the West African kingdom of Dahomey, this fascinating volume exposes the era's new sites of intimacy and secrecy as unexpected places of governance, power, and control.