Main entry:

Stark, Frances, 1967-

Title & Author:

The architect & the housewife / Frances Stark.

Publication:

London : Book Works, ©1999.

Description:

37 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"One of four publications commissioned by Matthew Higgs as part of Open House/Book Works Projects 1998-2001"--Colophon
"Part I ... originally appeared in Michael Lin's Complementary (Dimension Endowment of Art, Taiwan, 1988). Part II ... was originally commissioned for Jorge Pardo (Cantz, Germany, 1999)."--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references.
In English and Chinese.

Summary:

Frances Stark's 'The Architect & The Housewife' unfolds as a sequence of interrelated texts that consider - amongst many other things - the varying roles that gender acts out in contemporary art practice. Stark's wry, humane and often playful text, examines the inherent tensions - both emotional and social - that operate at the juncture where the private and the public meet. The text, which opens innocuously enough, as a gentle riff on domesticity soon unfolds to reveal a promiscuous tangle of associations. 'The Architect & The Housewife' indexes a bewildering, seemingly infinite range of cultural references, that includes: Oscar Wilde's 'The Critic as Artist', Danish 'Modern' furniture, domesticity, the studio, loneliness, consumerism, Ikea, the family, friendships, the spectacle, modernism, the avant-garde, Romanticism, architecture, Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own', home economics, public art, Daniel Buren, marriage, tattoos, R.M. Schindler, E.H. Gombrich and - perhaps most significantly - scatter cushions.--Book Works website.

ISBN:

1870699408
9781870699402

Subject:

Artists' books England.
Livres d'artistes Angleterre.
Artists' books
England

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
Artists' books
Artists' books England 20th century.
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Book Works (Organization)

Architect and the housewife

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255586
Call No.: BIB 185815
Status: Available