Art and the Home

Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday

AvImogen Racz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-22
Mått:157 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continnuum-3PL
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781501359859

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Imogen Racz is Senior Lecturer at Coventry University. Her publications include Contemporary Crafts, (2009), as well as many articles related to sculpture and object-based art.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIllustrations ListIntroductionChapter 1 Enclosure Inside/OutsideThe Home and SelfMinimalism and PhenomenologyEnclosure, Myths and PhenomenologyHomes, Transitional SpacesWallpaperMichael Landy, Semi-detachedChapter 2 Doors and WindowsBoundariesPost-war Breaks in the Wall – The Creative EverydayDoors and Windows – Formal MattersDoors – Document and MemoryWindows and Doors – The Poetic EverydayWindows – Sight DeniedChapter 3 Female SpaceBackgroundWomen and ConfinementWomen Artists and Their ExperiencesWomanhouseWomanhouse – Decorative Techniques and Critical DebatesWomanhouse – Female RolesAfter WomanhouseChapter 4 AlienationDada, Surrealism and FreudDomestic ObjectsLouise Bourgeois – Home and MemoryMona Hatoum – Exile and the Contemporary UncannyGregor Schneider – Unhomely SpacesChapter 5 The Unmade HouseThe Organic Home and the RuinEstablishment PowerArt Outside the SystemGordon Matta-Clark – Splitting Rachel Whiteread – the Personal and PoliticalSteffi Klenz – NummianusChapter 6 WithdrawalIlya Kabakov – Fantasy SpacesChildhood DreamsAdult Withdrawal – The BedShockChapter 7 Objects, Sentiment and MemoryObjects and IdentityThe CommonplaceDisplayVesselsPerceived ValueNotesBibiographyIndex