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Inside Out
Stefan Kürten
其他書名
Paintings
出版Artspace Books, 2006
主題Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Art / GeneralArt / Criticism & Theory
ISBN189127306X9781891273063
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hUxQAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan K]rten'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 stale bourgeois interiors and suburban homes project a dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the surface. His armchairs, teapots 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.