Intellect

Claire I. R. O’Mahony, Ph.D. specializes in the history of art, design and interior decoration of fin-de-siècle Europe as a University Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Fellow of Kellogg College and Department for Continuing Education). Recent publications include: ‘The Colony Within: Cultural Regeneration and the Troubadours of Toulouse’s Capitole’, in K. Griffiths and D. Evans (eds) (2009), Institutions and Power in Nineteenth-century French Literature and Culture, ed. O’Mahony (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2009), Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Interiority at the Fin de siècle (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press).

 ‘Fêtes galantes: theatricality and decoration’, in Selina Baring-Maclennan (ed.) (2009), Gaston La Touche – Dreams of the Belle Epoque, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’
Club (2008) ‘Fin-de-siècle fantasy to the Western Front: the Aesthetic gardens of Nancy’, Garden History, 36:2, 253–72 and (2007) ‘La Maison d’un artiste: The Goncourts, the bibelot and fin-de-siècle interiority’, in Harald Hendrix (ed.), Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory (London: Routledge).

Other publications include : (2006) Brunel and the Art of Invention, Bristol: Sansome and Co.