Art and the Home

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.

• 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