The Artist at Home (Paperback)

Dr Imogen Racz

ISBN 10: 1350379050 / ISBN 13: 9781350379053

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2025

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Paperback. Artists 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 Rauschenbergs 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 including the appropriation of abandoned spaces in East London, and the effects of Covid on artistic practices and family life within the spaces of home. The book comprises full-length chapters by artists, architects, art and design historians, each of whom bring different perspectives to the issues, interwoven with short interviews with artists to enrich and broaden the debates.At a time when individual relationships to home environments have been radically altered, The Artist at Home considers why some artists in previous decades either needed to or chose to work from home, producing work of vitality and integrity. Tracing this long tradition into the present, the book will provide a deeper understanding of how the home studio has affected the practices and identity of artists working in different countries, and in different circumstances, from the mid-20th century to the present. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: The Artist at Home (Paperback)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1350379050
• ISBN 13: 9781350379053
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Ten chapters and ten short interviews about how artists use their live-work spaces and the impact these have on their work.

Informazioni sugli autori

Imogen Racz is an art historian and former Associate Head of School for Research at Coventry University, UK. She is the author of British Art of the Long 1980s: Diverse Practices, Exhibitions and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Jill Journeaux is an artist and researcher who was Professor of Fine Art at Coventry University, UK from 2004 until 2024. She is Director of Drawing Conversations and has published on expanded drawing practices, including Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice (2017) and Body, Space and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing (2020). She co-edited The Artist at Home (Bloomsbury, 2024).