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
All from Robert Upstone, Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, ex. cat. Tate, 2008:
- Robert Upstone, ‘Painters of Modern Life: The Camden Town Group’, 9-25
- David Peters Corbett, ‘Modern Themes in Camden Town Painting’, 27-37
- Look through ‘Portrait/Figure/Type’, 97-117 and ‘Home Front’, 165-73
- Look through the related Tate website, especially the section on ‘Social Class and Social Type’