The Surreal House
New Haven / London: Barbican Art Gallery / Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. grey boards w/ illustration & silver quarter cloth; black printing. blue & illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 347 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. VG. covers have light shelf & edge-wear; back cover scuffed & marked w/ light spots of soiling. pgs lightly edge-toned w/ ink ghosting from opposing pgs/illustration; otherwise, clean. Item #180815
ISBN: 9780300165760
Through a unique blend of art, photography, film, and architecture, The Surreal House presents the individual dwelling as a place of mystery and wonder. Fusing house and dream, it probes the relationship between interior and shell, object and space, and it elaborates “the marvelous” and “compulsive beauty” as espoused by André Breton. The haunted house, the cabinet of curiosities, the ruined castle, the cage, the cave, the box, the labyrinth, the bell jar, and the womb are among the uniquely surreal habitats explored. Shaped by the irrational and the subversive, the flip side of the modernist paradigm of the functional, rational dwelling, The Surreal House is ripe for discovery. Mirroring the surrealist love of poetic juxtaposition, the project brings together works by artists such as Edward Hopper, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joseph Cornell, and Salvador Dalí. A surreal legacy is to be found in the interiors of little-known Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino, in Frederick Kiesler’s model for “The Endless House” (1957–59), in sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Rebecca Horn, and in installations by Edward Kienholz and Ilya Kabakov. Contemporary architecture is represented by the work of Rem Koolhaas and Diller & Scofidio, among others.--Amazon.
OCLC: 646591795
Price: $180.00