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I am grateful to the editor of The Art Bulletin and the anonymous reviewers who helped develop this article.
1 John Potvin, “The Materials of Shame: Decoration, Masculinity, and the Birth of Modern Interior Design,” The Art Bulletin 106, no. 1 (March 2024): 7–19.
2 Egon von Fürstenberg and Karen Fisher, The Power Look at Home: Decorating for Men (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980). For more sources on masculinity in a state of flux during the 1970s and a discussion of masculinity as a subject, see Peter Schwenger, “The Masculine Mode,” Critical Inquiry 5, no. 4 (Summer 1979): 621–33.
3 David M. Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 63.
4 Nicholas de Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
5 James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 80.
6 C. Ray Smith, “Minimal Interiors,” Progressive Architecture, 48, no. 3 (March 1967): 150.
7 Tom Burke, “The New Homosexuality,” Esquire, 63. no. 6 (December 1969), 306.
8 Craig Alfred Hanson, “The Fairy Princess Exposed,” Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, eds. Karla Jay and Allen Young (New York: Douglas, 1972), 268. Originally published in Gay Sunshine 10 (January 1972), 3.
9 David Van Leer, The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (New York: Routledge, 1995), 19.
10 de Villiers, Opacity and the Closet, 3.
11 Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I, trans. Frédéric Gros and Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 157–59.
12 Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977–1978), trans. Rosalind Krauss and Denis Hollier (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 199.
13 Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin, High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978), 31.
14 Walter Benjamin, “Louis Philippe, or The Interior,” in The Arcades Project, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), 20
15 Peter Carlsen, “Five Apartments,” Interiors 135, no. 3 (October 1975): 122.
16 For a history of lifestyle, see Joanne Hollows and David Bell, Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006), 1–20.
17 Michel Foucault, “Friendship as a Way of Life,” Foucault Live: Interviews, 1961–1984, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth and John Johnston (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 309–10.
18 Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” Theatre Journal 40, no. 4 (December 1988): 530.
19 Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Interior Design, the New Freedom (New York: Rizzoli, 1982), 80.
20 Reed Evins, interviewed by the author, January 27, 2023.
21 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1, no. 2 (November 1993): 13.
22 Joan Kron, “The Minimal Apartment: It’s Nothing,” The New York Times, March 2, 1978: section C, 1.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid., 8.
25 Foucault, “Friendship as a Way of Life,” 310.
26 von Fürstenberg and Fisher, The Power Look at Home, 76–78.
27 Kron, “The Minimal Apartment,” section C, 8.
28 Ibid.
29 Roland Barthes, preface to Tricks: 25 Encounters, by Renaud Camus, trans. Richard Howard (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), vii.
30 Adam Phillips, “On a More Impersonal Note,” Intimacies, by Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008): 116.
31 Barthes, The Neutral, 199.
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Timothy M. Rohan
Timothy M. Rohan is an architectural historian who focuses upon post-World War II architecture. He is the author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale, 2014), now in its third printing. He is writing a book about Manhattan residential interiors of the 1970s [University of Massachusetts Amherst, 01002, [email protected]].