Not at home : the suppression of domesticity in modern art and architecture / edited and introduced by Christopher Reed.

Contributor(s):

Reed, Christopher, 1961- [editor,, writer of supplementary textual content.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0500016925
9780500016923

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LOC classification:

N8217.H66 N68 1996

Contents:

Chic interior and the feminine modern : home decorating as high art in turn-of-the-century Paris / Lisa Tiersten -- Chromo and the art museum : popular and elite art institutions in late nineteenth-century America / Michael Clapper -- Model-families : the domesticated studio pictures of William Merritt Chase and Edmund C. Tarbell / Linda J. Docherty -- Psyche and sympathy : staging interiority in the early modern home / Susan Sidlauskas -- Ideal Swedish home : Carl Larsson's Lilla Hyttnäs / Michelle Facos --

Frank Lloyd Wright's kindergarten : professional practice and sexual roles / David Van Zanten -- "Hi honey, I'm home" : weary (Neurasthenic) businessmen and the formulation of a serenely modern aesthetic / Joyce Henri Robinson -- Domesticity, decoration and consumer culture : selling art and design in pre-World War I France / Nancy J. Troy -- Forgotten ties : the suppression of the decorative in German art and theory, 1900-1915 / Jenny Anger -- "Room of one's own" : the Bloomsbury group's creation of a modernist domesticity / Christopher Reed --

Homes for cyborgs / Anthony Vidler -- Domestic differences : Edith Farnsworth, Mies van der Rohe, and the gendered body / Alice T. Friedman -- Robert Rauschenberg's fabrics : reconstructing domestic space / Lisa Wainwright -- Master bedrooms, master narratives : home, homosexuality, and post-war art / Kenneth E. Silver -- Pop at home / Cécile Whiting -- Vito Acconci's bad dream of domesticity / Christine Poggi -- Coming home : a postscript on postmodernism / Sharon Haar and Christopher Reed.

Summary: This book explores the relationship of modernism and domesticity, a contested realm which, perpetually invoked in order to be denied, has remained a crucial though marginalized element of modernism. From the Victorian period, through Aestheticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, in fin-de-siecle France and Sweden and within the twentieth-century avant-gardes of Paris, Vienna, London, Boston, Berlin and New York, up to the present time, domesticity and art, architecture and design are interwoven.Summary: Today, after more than one hundred years of dispute, the domestic is being re-evaluated and returned to a position of cultural prominence, impelling us to look back over the mainstream of modernism in an effort to trace its hidden domestic subcurrents. This book, with stimulating and highly original contributions by leading historians of art and design, represents the most coherent and considered investigation of domesticity in visual culture. Through these essays, the notion of home is freed from stereotypes of sentimental nostalgia and emerges as a vital arena of modern art - and of modern life.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book explores the relationship of modernism and domesticity, a contested realm which, perpetually invoked in order to be denied, has remained a crucial though marginalized element of modernism. From the Victorian period, through Aestheticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, in fin-de-siecle France and Sweden and within the twentieth-century avant-gardes of Paris, Vienna, London, Boston, Berlin and New York, up to the present time, domesticity and art, architecture and design are interwoven.

Today, after more than one hundred years of dispute, the domestic is being re-evaluated and returned to a position of cultural prominence, impelling us to look back over the mainstream of modernism in an effort to trace its hidden domestic subcurrents. This book, with stimulating and highly original contributions by leading historians of art and design, represents the most coherent and considered investigation of domesticity in visual culture. Through these essays, the notion of home is freed from stereotypes of sentimental nostalgia and emerges as a vital arena of modern art - and of modern life.

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