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

Contributor(s): Reed, Christopher, 1961-.

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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1996Description: 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0500016925.Subject(s): Home in art

| Family in art

| Art, Modern

| Architecture, Modern

DDC classification: 745.444

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 -- n50500 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 -- n50500 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	745.444 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00053368

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The notion of domesticity - the home, the family, privacy, comfort - has often been challenged and ridiculed by modernist artists, architects and designers. Today, after more than 100 years of dispute, the domestic is being re-evaluated and returned to a position of cultural prominence, looking back over the mainstream of modernism in an effort to trace it hidden domestic subcurrents. The book investigates domesticity in modern art and architecture from the Victorian period up to the present day. Through the essays, the notion of the home is freed from stereotypes of sentimental nostalgia and emerges as an arena of modern art.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Despite the restrictive title and a tendency to both replicate uncritically aspects of the postmodern critique and homogenize the Modernist agenda, this volume of essays contains much interesting material on 19th- and 20th-century transatlantic culture. Their range is nicely illustrated by comparing the articles submitted by editor Reed on the concept of domesticity developed by the Bloomsbury Group with those by David Van Zanten on Frank Lloyd Wright's early suburban design, Alice Friedman on the personal and natural dimension of the Farnsworth House, or by Anthony Vidler speculating on recent reiteration of essentially Surrealist opposition to Modernist claims of potential harmony between human requisite and mechanized design. However, Vidler is not alone in selective reading and decontextualizing of Modernist architectural theory. Wanting also are studies of, say, the biological and psychological conceptualization of domestic design propounded and practiced by Richard Neutra, the suburbanization of Modernist functionalist planning and furnishing, or the response of such bureaucratic organizations as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to the provision of parental privacy in the standard house plans they distributed. Graduate; faculty. R. W. Liscombe University of British Columbia