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Art and the home : comfort, alienation and the everyday

By: Series: International library of modern and contemporary art ; 5.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781780762012
  • 1780762011
  • 9781780762005
  • 1780762003
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Contents:
Chapter 1 Enclosure: Inside/Outside -- The Home and Self -- Minimalism and Phenomenology -- Enclosure, Myths and Phenomenology -- Homes, Transitional Spaces -- Wallpaper -- Michael Landy, Semi-detached -- Chapter 2 Doors and Windows: Boundaries -- Post-war Breaks in the Wall – The Creative Everyday -- Doors and Windows – Formal Matters -- Doors – Document and Memory -- Windows and Doors – The Poetic Everyday -- Windows – Sight Denied -- Chapter 3 Female Space: Background -- Women and Confinement -- Women Artists and Their Experiences -- Womanhouse -- Womanhouse – Decorative Techniques and Critical Debates -- Womanhouse – Female Roles -- After Womanhouse -- Chapter 4 Alienation: Dada, Surrealism and Freud -- Domestic Objects -- Louise Bourgeois – Home and Memory -- Mona Hatoum – Exile and the Contemporary Uncanny -- Gregor Schneider – Unhomely Spaces -- Chapter 5 The Unmade House: The Organic Home and the Ruin -- Establishment Power -- Art Outside the System -- Gordon Matta-Clark – Splitting -- Rachel Whiteread – the Personal and Political -- Steffi Klenz – Nummianus -- Chapter 6 Withdrawal: Ilya Kabakov – Fantasy Spaces -- Childhood Dreams Adult Withdrawal – The Bed -- Shock -- Chapter 7 Objects, Sentiment and Memory: Objects and Identity -- The Commonplace -- Display -- Vessels Perceived Value
Summary: "Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. Like the personal, social, and cultural elements out of which they are constructed, homes can be not only comforting, but threatening too. The home is a rich theme running through post-war western art, and it continues to engage contemporary artists today - yet it has been the subject of relatively little critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday is the first single-authored, up-to-date book on the subject. Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts."--Wheelers.co.nz.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.

Chapter 1 Enclosure: Inside/Outside -- The Home and Self -- Minimalism and Phenomenology -- Enclosure, Myths and Phenomenology -- Homes, Transitional Spaces -- Wallpaper -- Michael Landy, Semi-detached -- Chapter 2 Doors and Windows: Boundaries -- Post-war Breaks in the Wall – The Creative Everyday -- Doors and Windows – Formal Matters -- Doors – Document and Memory -- Windows and Doors – The Poetic Everyday -- Windows – Sight Denied -- Chapter 3 Female Space: Background -- Women and Confinement -- Women Artists and Their Experiences -- Womanhouse -- Womanhouse – Decorative Techniques and Critical Debates -- Womanhouse – Female Roles -- After Womanhouse -- Chapter 4 Alienation: Dada, Surrealism and Freud -- Domestic Objects -- Louise Bourgeois – Home and Memory -- Mona Hatoum – Exile and the Contemporary Uncanny -- Gregor Schneider – Unhomely Spaces -- Chapter 5 The Unmade House: The Organic Home and the Ruin -- Establishment Power -- Art Outside the System -- Gordon Matta-Clark – Splitting -- Rachel Whiteread – the Personal and Political -- Steffi Klenz – Nummianus -- Chapter 6 Withdrawal: Ilya Kabakov – Fantasy Spaces -- Childhood Dreams
Adult Withdrawal – The Bed -- Shock -- Chapter 7 Objects, Sentiment and Memory: Objects and Identity -- The Commonplace -- Display -- Vessels
Perceived Value

"Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. Like the personal, social, and cultural elements out of which they are constructed, homes can be not only comforting, but threatening too. The home is a rich theme running through post-war western art, and it continues to engage contemporary artists today - yet it has been the subject of relatively little critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday is the first single-authored, up-to-date book on the subject. Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts."--Wheelers.co.nz.

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