Synopsis
Driving the glossy shelter magazines -- Architectural Digest, House and Garden, and many more -- is an enduring fascination with other people's lives and houses. But the pristine photographs in these publications do not represent reality. In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed residents and environments that comment on contemporary life and relationships. Robbins's design and photography work, which bridges the fields of art and architecture, has long focused on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The thoughtfully arranged compositions reinforce, undermine, and even confuse stereotypes; the collection as a whole comments on present-day customs and ways of life in all their complexity.
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About the Author
Mark Robbins is dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture. Previously, he was director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts and curator of architecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.
Bill Horrigan has been the director of the Media Arts Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, since its opening in 1989.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Driving the glossy shelter magazines -- Architectural Digest, House and Garden, and many more -- is an enduring fascination with other people's lives and houses. But the pristine photographs in these publications do not represent reality. In his 'Households' series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the 'flip side' of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed residents and environments that comment on contemporary life and relationships. Robbins's design and photography work, which bridges the fields of art and architecture, has long focused on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The thoughtfully arranged compositions reinforce, undermine, and even confuse stereotypes; the collection as a whole comments on present-day customs and ways of life in all their complexity. Slight scratching/scuffing on cover. Book has minor shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 20110313140400
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ISBN 13: 9781580931649
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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 152 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; inscribed to a well known photography curator and signed by Mark Robbins. no other internal marks. Photographs of people, some nude and the rooms they live in. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # HoRoTh45