les presses du réel

The Artist's HouseFrom Workplace to Artwork

Kirsty Bell - The Artist\'s House
Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.
The artist's house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice of its inhabitant, but also to apprehend broader developments in sculpture and contemporary art in relation to domestic architecture and interior space. Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space. In-depth analyses of these contemporary examples—including Jorge Pardo, Mirosław Bałka, Danh Vo, Gregor Schneider, Frances Stark, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paweł Althamer, Mark Leckey, Monika Sosnowska, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Andrea Zittel—are contextualized by key artists of the twentieth century such as Kurt Schwitters, Alice Neel, Edward Krasiński, Carlo Mollino, and Louise Bourgeois. A two-way flow from the domestic arena to the exhibition space becomes apparent, in which the everyday has a significant role to play in the merging of such developments as installation art, relational aesthetics, expanded collage, and performance art.
Kirsty Bell is a writer and contributing editor of frieze living in Berlin.
Graphic design by Joseph Logan.
 
published in February 2014
English edition
17,5 x 23 cm (softcover)
328 pages (183 color & 41 b/w ill.)
 
29.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-943365-30-6
EAN : 9783943365306
 
in stock
The Artist's House The Artist's House The Artist's House The Artist's House The Artist's House


 top of page