Art and the Home
Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday
Published on 26. January 2015
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-78076-200-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
17 integrated bw
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-200-5 (9781780762005)
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Imogen Racz is an art historian who worked for many years at Coventry University, and who has published extensively around the theme of the home and on sculptural practices since the 1970s, including British Art of the Long 1980s: Diverse Practices, Exhibitions and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2015).
Jill Journeaux is Professor of Fine art at Coventry University. Her art practice research is characterised by the handmade, a domesticity of scale, source and reference and the decorative arts both as language and subject. She convenes the Drawing Conversations series of events, exhibitions and publications, and edited Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) and Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing (Cambridge Scholars, 2020).
Jill Journeaux is Professor of Fine art at Coventry University. Her art practice research is characterised by the handmade, a domesticity of scale, source and reference and the decorative arts both as language and subject. She convenes the Drawing Conversations series of events, exhibitions and publications, and edited Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) and Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing (Cambridge Scholars, 2020).
Content
Acknowledgements
Illustrations List
Introduction
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
Notes
Bibiography
Index - yet to be done
Illustrations List
Introduction
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
Notes
Bibiography
Index - yet to be done