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Textiles have always played an important role in interiors. Take the bed, couch, armchairs, carpet, or curtains surrounding us. They are so omnipresent we tend to forget they are even there. Yet, for a long time, furnishing textiles held a place of choice in the decoration of a room, costing often more than the rest of the furniture put together. They had a practical purpose, but also a decorative one.
From tapestries to silk hangings and linen tablecloths, furnishing fabrics materialise the stylistic evolution of decorative arts, but also of artistic developments in general. This seminar will explore how these textiles could be found at the intersection of fine arts and decorative arts.
Beyond a sole practical and decorative purpose, furnishing textiles could also be imbued with strong symbolic meanings, such as political messages. The economic importance of the textile industries also led them to play a central role in the mercantilist strategies of the European states and the political economic discourses of the time. Textiles could also help establish a hierarchy between the different spaces of a home or a building. Between political endeavours and stylistic choices, this seminar will address the various symbols and meanings furnishing textiles could carry through their material, colours, iconography and context of use.
We will also consider who were the people behind the making of these textiles and their patterns, from weavers to upholsterers, designers and painters.
This seminar will be held in English. Students can miss no more than two sessions.
Literatur:
- Bertrand, Pascal-François, Jeri Bapasola, and Thomas P. Campbell. Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
- Bertrand Pascal-François, La peinture tissée. Théorie de l’art et tapisseries des Gobelins sous Louis XIV. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015.
- Evers, Susanne (ed.), Textile Räume. Seide im Höfischen Interieur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag, 2016.
- Jolly, Anna (ed.). Furnishing Textiles: Studies on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Interior Decoration. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2009.
- Lynn, Eleri. Tudor Textiles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
- Thornton, Peter. Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior, 1620-1920. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
- Thornton, Peter. Form and Decoration: Innovation in the Decorative Arts, 1470-1870. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
A. Sully, European interior design through the ages, Woking-London 1970; Schöner Schein. Luxustapeten des Historismus von Paul Balin, München 2016; „Reading Room“, hrsg. von C. Göttler, P. Schneemann, B. Borkopp-Restle u.a. (2019) |
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