Beschreibung:
The first book to study the interior as a specific concept, this fresh new interpretation of a contemporary situation brings together an eclectic and novel array of historical and theoretical material in a wide-ranging account of the domestic interior.
Introduction Part I: Orientations 1. Irrecoverable Inhabitations: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Interior 2. Lost Objects: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytical Interior Part II: Trajectories 3. Imagining the Interior: Plan and Comfort 4. Consuming the Interior: Geography and Identity 5. Recognizing the Interior: Space and Image Conclusion: Mediatized Domesticity