Concealed Interiors: 1850-1910 is a collaborative seminar series bringing together staff and lecturers from the Geffrye Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art. It will deliver seminars and site visits exploring topics ranging from cabinet interiors, sensory engagement with furniture, representations of gas lighting, Victorian gift books, scent and space, ephemeral fabrics, health and possessions, and hidden wall paintings.
By placing participants of this series in close contact with objects and asking important questions about the relationship between people, their possessions and surroundings, this seminar series will attempt to establish alternative methodological frameworks for studies of the interior.
Readings:
Rosemary Barrow, ‘Toga Plays and Tableaux Vivants: Theatre and Painting on London’s Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Stage,’Theatre Journal, 62:2 (2010): 209-26
Gail Marshall, Actresses on the Victorian stage: feminine performance and the Galatea myth (Cambridge: CUP, 1998)
Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, E.W. Godwin: aesthetic movement architect and designer (New Haven and London: YUP, 1999).