The ‘Ideal’ and the ‘Real’ Interior in Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste of 1913
The ‘Ideal’ and the ‘Real’ Interior in Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste of 1913
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艾尔西·德·沃尔夫 (Elsie de Wolfe) 1913 年的《高品味之家》中的“理想”和“真实”内饰
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10.1093/jdh/16.1.63
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2003
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0.2
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Pennv Sparke
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Pennv Sparke
这篇文章重点介绍了1913年由美国室内设计师Elsie de Wolfe撰写的家庭建议书《The House in Good Taste》。它强调了这本书的内容来源于两套文章，这两套文章以前曾在两个不同的大众市场杂志上发表，《描绘者》和《好管家》，这一事实使文本具有双重身份。这种模糊性被证明是增强了作者的介绍，她既是一个业余装饰师（像她的大多数读者一样），也是一个与富裕的中上层阶级客户合作的专业人士。然而，这篇文章旨在表明，这本书的基本模糊性在这样一个历史背景下是没有问题的，在这个背景下，消费文化的扩张是如此之大，以至于对一个新的内部和随之而来的更高的社会地位的渴望，对读者来说，与实际实现一样重要。事实上，这本书的模糊性反映了“真实的”和“理想的”内部之间的界限的模糊，反映了读者与文本之间的矛盾关系。文章认为，埃尔西·德·沃尔夫（Elsie de Wolfe）开始将其商业化。
This article focuses on the household advice book, The House in Good Taste, of 1913, written by the American interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe. It emphasizes the way in which the content of the book derivedfrom two sets of articles that had previously been published in two different mass-market magazines, The Delineator and Good Housekeeping, a fact that gave the text a double identity. This ambiguity is shown to have been enhanced by the author's presentation of herself as both an amateur decorator (like the majority of her readers) and a professional working with wealthy, upper-middle-class clients. The article sets out to show, however, that the book's essential ambiguity was unproblematic in a historical context in which the expansion of consumer culture was such that the desirefor a new interior and the elevated social status that came with it was as significant, for the reader, as the actual realization of one. The book's ambiguity reflected, in fact, the blurring of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'ideal' interior, mirroring the ambivalent relationship of the reader with the text. Elsie de Wolfe, the article argues, set out to exploit this commercially.