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Book SynopsisArtists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.
From the home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to the different photographic representations of Robert Rauschenberg's studio, this book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice, and the traditions and developments of the home studio as concept and space throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.
Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. Key themes include the gendered and performative aspects of women practising at home', collaborative studio communities of the 1970s 90s inc
Trade Review
This original and multifaceted book interweaves artists’ interviews with contributions from art historians, design historians and architects. Surveying the domestic and creative functions of the studio alongside its performative role, it makes a compelling case for the enduring cultural significance of these extraordinary places. * Louise Campbell, Emeritus Professor, History of Art, Warwick University, UK *
Insightful and timely, with a wealth of fascinating case studies and approaches, this book offers crucial new perspectives on the competing pressures of the domestic and the professional, and the myriad ways in which artists have negotiated, resisted or embraced them. * Clare O’Dowd, Research Curator, the Henry Moore Institute, UK *
Demystifies the trope of the artist’s studio as a mythical (and separate) space of creativity, helping to expand and enrich its modern definition. Accessibly written and hugely informative, it will be of interest to researchers, artists, art students, architects, designers and cultural theorists. * Gill Perry, Emeritus Professor of Art History, The Open University, UK *
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) Part One: The Studio at Home: Designing and Projecting the Creative Life 1. Blurring Boundaries between Life and Work: The Home Studios, Homes and Design/Film/ Multi-Media Workshop of Charles and Ray Eames, 1941 to 1978, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) 2. Interview, Imogen Racz and Liz Harrison 3. An Atomisation of the Home: Towards a Compound Dwelling Interior, Nicholas Lee (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark) 4. Interview, Paula Chambers and Imogen Racz 5. Interview, Zahrah Al Ghamdi and Imogen Racz 6. Robert Rauschenberg’s Studio through the Lens of Two Photographers, Adi Meyerovitch (Yale University, USA) 7. Interview, Graham Chorlton and Jill Journeaux Part Two: Women, Home, Studio 8. Working from Home: Portuguese women artists during Estado Novo, Maria Luisa Coelho (University of Oxford, UK) 9. Interview, Gerda Roper (Teesside University, UK) and Imogen Racz 10. Making Memory Material: Clutter and the Home Studios of Margaret Olley and Mirka Mora, Cassandra Joore-Short (Melbourne University, Australia) 11. Interview, Carole Griffiths (Bradford College, UK) and Jill Journeaux Part Three: Live-work Communities from the 1970s to 1990s 12. Abandoned and Appropriated Homes: The live-work spaces of artists in East London, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Heidi Saarinen (Coventry University, UK) 13. Mikey Cuddihy Reflections 14. Housewatch: Cinematic architecture for the Pedestrian, David Martin (Independent Scholar) 15. Interview, George Saxon and Imogen Racz Part Four: Staying Home During COVID-19 16. Sailing to my Nearest Neighbours for Lockdown Cocktails: Reflections on the Politics of Home and Homemaking during a Pandemic, Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) and Lia Lapithi (Independent artist) 17. Interview, Fran Cottell (Camberwell College of Arts, UK) and Imogen Racz 18. Artists at Home and Away: Mobile Bodies, Distance and Proximity, Gudrun Filipska (Arts Territory Exchange) 19. Interview, Angie Walton (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Sarah Black (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Imogen Racz 20. Studio. Object. Home: Place Setting, Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) 21. Interview, Sreejata Roy and Jill Journeaux 22. Interview, Anastasia Starikova and Jill Journeaux Index
