Title & Author:

Breaking and entering : the contemporary house cut, spliced, and haunted / edited by Bridget Elliott.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Description:

x, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

Notes:
Project started as as an exhibition and symposium in the ArtLab of the Department of Visual Arts at Western University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Excavations -- Part two. From house to housing -- Part three. Such stuff as dreams are made of ... -- Part four. A matter of perspective.
Part one. Excavations. Relics from the Mansion of sorrow : melancholic traces of home in contemporary art / Claudette Lauzon ; Urban interiority : listening in to Coppola's The conversation / Charles Rice ; Performing house : Iris Häussler at the Grange / Anthony Purdy -- Part two. From house to housing. Past failures and future promises : Mark Lewis's Children's games, Heygate Estate / Christine Sprengler ; Wrecking ball fantasies in modern times / Shelley Hornstein -- Part three. Such stuff as dreams are made of ... Four houses, never at home : tents, capitalism, and the fabric of living / Kirsty Robertson ; Survival instinct : craft, ornament, excess / Sandra Alfoldy ; Disassembled houses and domestic belongings : ideas of home in the works of Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy / Stephanie Radu -- Part four. A matter of perspective. A roof under one's head : the model house inverted / Trista E. Mallory ; Fan architecture--loving it to bits / Malin Zimm ; From playhouse to PlayStation : the dollhouses of Wyn Geleynse, David Hoffos, and Heather Benning / Bridget Elliott.
Text in English.

Summary:

"An interdisciplinary study of contemporary artists and filmmakers whose work examines the increasingly precarious subjects of house and home."-- From publisher's website.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780773545458 (bound)
077354545X (bound)

Subject:

Dwellings in art.
Dwellings Social aspects.
Dwellings in motion pictures.
Architecture, Domestic.
Photography, Artistic.
Habitations dans l'art.
Habitations Aspect social.
Habitations au cinéma.
Architecture domestique.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
dwellings.
Art and Design.
Byggnader i konsten.
Bostadshus.

Added entries:

Elliott, Bridget, 1957- author, editor.
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

Contemporary house cut, spliced, and haunted

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289209
Call No.: BIB 231489
Status: Available