Illustrated with 160 colour paintings by over 100 artists, this book argues that the domestic interior should be considered an artistic category in its own right. This title contains chapters that focus on particular aspects of the interior - unpeopled, portrait, moral, the effects of light, and the artist's own living space.

Superbly illustrated with 160 colour paintings by over 100 artists, this groundbreaking, visually entrancing book argues that the domestic interior should be considered an artistic category in its own right. Ravishing works by a wide range of European and American artists are reproduced in chapters that focus on particular aspects of the interior - unpeopled, portrait, moral, the effects of light, and the artist's own living space - which combine to provide new insight into some of the most appealing art ever produced.

Introduction: 1900
1. What is a Domestic Interior?
2. The Secret Life of the Interior
3. The Unofficial History
4. The Unpeopled Interior
5. Seeing the Light
6. The Portrait Interior
7. The Moral Interior
8. The Artist's Own Interior
9. Coming of Age
10. What Happened Next?
Conclusion.