Oriental Interiors

John Potvin is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Canada, where he teaches on the intersections of art, interior design and fashion.

Introduction: Inside Orientalism: Hybrid Spaces and Modern Interior Design
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada

Section I: Modes of Display and Representation
Introduction to Section I
Chapter 1: The Emptiness of Western Aesthetics Versus the Aesthetics of Eastern Intimacy: A Reading of Interior Spaces and (Colonial) Literary Impressionism in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Victor Vargas, Cogswell Polytechnic, USA
Chapter 2: The Exhibitionary Re-production of ‘Islamic’ Architecture
Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, University of Colorado, USA
Chapter 3: Promoting the Colonial Empire through French Interior Design
Laura Sextro, University of Dayton, USA
Chapter 4: Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-positive Imaginative Geographies
Dennis S. Gouws, Springfield College and the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies, Australia
Chapter 5: The Excessive Trompe l’Oeil: The Saturated Interior in Tears of the Black Tiger
Mark Taylor, University of Newcastle, Australia and Michael J. Ostwald, University of Newcastle, Australia

Section II: Gendered and Sexual Identities
Introduction to Section II
Chapter 6: On Oriental Interiors in Eighteenth-century British Women Writers’ Novels
Marianna D’Ezio, Luspio University for International Studies of Rome, Italy
Chapter 7: Bachelor Quarters: The Spaces of Japonisme in Nineteenth-century Paris
Christopher Reed, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Chapter 8: Coming Out of the China Closet?: Performance, Identity and Sexuality in the House Beautiful
Anne Anderson, Hon. Research Fellow Exeter University and Associate MIRC, Kingston University, UK
Chapter 9: Orientalism, Collecting and Shame: Inside Rolf de Maré’s Hildesborg Estate
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada

Section III: Spaces and Markets of Consumption
Introduction to Section III
Chapter 10: Paradise in the Parlour: Potted Palms in Western Interiors, 1850 – 1914
Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK
Chapter 11: Traveling in Time and Space: The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress Theatre
Camille Bédard, McGill University, Canada
Chapter 12: Oriental Spaces at Sea: From the Titanic to the Empress of Britain
Anne Massey, Middlesex University, UK
Chapter 13: Posturing for Authenticity: Embodying Otherness in Contemporary Interiors of Modern Yoga
Lauren Bird, Queen’s University, Canada

Index