Inside out : paintings / by Stefan Kürten ; text by Rebecca Solnit.

Main entry:

Kürten, Stefan, 1963-

Title & Author:

Inside out : paintings / by Stefan Kürten ; text by Rebecca Solnit.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

56 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Also issued online.

Summary:

A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kurten's lush images of domestic interiors, buildings, and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kurten's paintings of state bourgeois suburban homes project a dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the surface. His armchairs, ottomans and planter boxes suggest that we are living in a peculiar state of safety and bliss. Together, the text and images question the equation of ideal houses with ideal lives, the images that shape our perception of childhood, and our notion of a fulfilled adulthood.

ISBN:

189127306X
9781891273063

Subject:

Kürten, Stefan, 1963-
Dwellings in art.
Architecture, Domestic, in art.
Habitations dans l'art.
Architecture domestique dans l'art.
Dwellings Philosophy.
Home Psychological aspects.

Added entries:

Solnit, Rebecca.
Kürten, Stefan, 1963-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248979
Call No.: GT165 .S6 2006
Status: Available

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