The House of Art
Modern Residences of Artists as the Subject and Space of Creation
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The House of Art
Modern Residences of Artists as the Subject and Space of Creation
About This Book
The term Ā«house of artĀ» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist's residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter's, writer's or composer's actual field. This book discusses the most important of these creations from the 18 th century to the beginning of the 20 th, including gardens as well as the artist's space, broadly understood, annexed by his imagination. An artist's shaping of his own residence was most commonly a secondary area of his creative work. The formula for a Ā«house of artĀ» is specific to the particular artist and does not have to fit within any given architectural or decorative style. It may conform to the traditions of a residence (artist's palace, cottage etc), but most often it forms an individual case.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1:āThe āartistās houseā. The rise and twilight of the concept
- Chapter 2:āāIt is a world that came to meā. The cave of making and its aura after the Romantic breakthrough
- Chapter 3:āThe palace of a prince of artists. An attempt at a typology
- Chapter 4:āāA poem of a houseā: a Romantic masterpiece?
- Chapter 5:āThe creatorās territory. An attempt at a total work (of art?)
- Chapter 6:.āA museum, a mausoleum, a reliquary of art, a temple of the artist
- Chapter 7:āA temple of art and artificiality
- Chapter 8: Life amidst nature as creation. An artistās cottage
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Illustrations