Pamela Karimi

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the transformation of home culture and domestic architecture in twentieth century Iran. While highlighting the role of architects and urban planners since the turn of the century, the book also studies the interplay between foreign influences, gender roles, consumer culture, and women's education as they intersect with taste, fashion, and interior design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135101374
• Artikelnr.: 38447386

Autorenporträt

Pamela Karimi is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She received her PhD in history and theory of art and architecture from MIT in 2009. Her primary field of research is art, architecture, and visual culture of the modern Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  1. The Hovel, the Harem, and the Hybrid Furnishing
2. Renewing the Nation's Interiors 3. The Cold War  and the Economies of
Desire and Domesticity 4. Selling and Saving Piety in Modern Dwellings 5.
Gendered Spaces and Bodies out of Place Epilogue: At Home in the Islamic
Republic