Main entry:

Rault, Jasmine.

Title & Author:

Eileen Gray and the design of Sapphic modernity : staying in / Jasmine Rault.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.

Description:

xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Redressing critical oversights ; "Pioneer lady" in context ; Re-viewing Gray's work -- Decadent perversions and healthy bodies in modern architecture : Looking back: reading Gray in the 1920s ; Decadent interiorities and moral panic; a history of aesthetic health ; Building health ; Building (for) other bodies ; Gray in context: sapphic decadence ; Conclusions -- Screening sexuality: Eileen Gray and Romaine Brooks : Domesticity, femininity and sexuality ; "Smouldering sensuality": interior decoration and Brooks' first nudes ; Screening sexuality: Gray's first lacquer works ; Domesticating the "specular" lesbian -- Accommodating ambiguity: Eileen Gray and Radclyffe Hall : E.1027: the privilege of privacy ; E.1027 as "critical commentary" ; Other accommodations: E.1027 and The well ; Fashion, vision, architecture ; Other fashions, visions, architectures ; Conclusions -- Not communicating with Eileen Gray and Djuna Barnes : Retreat from communications ; Architecture and communications ; Nightwood and Tempe a ̀Pailla: some conclusions -- Conclusion : Staying in.

Summary:

This book argues that Eileen Gray's unusual architecture and design - as well as its history of abuse and neglect - emerged from her involvement with cultures of sapphic modernism. Bringing together a range of theoretical and historical sources, from architecture and design, communicaition and media, to gender and sexuality studies, the author shows that Gray shared with many of her female contemporaries a commitment to designing spaces for sexually dissident modernity.

ISBN:

9780754669616 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0754669610 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976 Criticism and interpretation.
Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976
Gray, Eileen.
Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976 analys och tolkning.
Modernism (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Homosexuality and art.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Histoire 20e siècle.
Homosexualité et art.
Art and Design.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
LGBTQ+ arts.
Design.
Innenarchitektur.
Architektur.
Moderne.
Homosexualitet och konst.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273727
Call No.: BIB 207396
Status: Available