Domestic and Interior Space in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

From art history, cultural studies, history of design, to architecture and literature, critics have, over the last few decades been questioning the forgotten role of the domestic interior in the formation of modern art and modern identity. While many critical works have emerged that redefine the role of the interior in modernity (eg. Reed: Not at home: The suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (1996); Marcus: Apartment Stories: City and Home in nineteenth-century Paris and London (1999); Rosner’s Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2004), the specificities of th... Mehr ...