Inside Out
Art by Stefan K?rten & Essay by Rebecca Solnit  ![Inside Out<br> <br>Art by Stefan K?rten & Essay by Rebecca Solnit]()
Contributions by Rebecca Solnit.
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 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.
PUBLISHED BY: Artspace Books
FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 28 color.
ISBN: 9781891273063 ISBN10: 189127306X
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/15/2006
AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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