Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture

Hardcover, 206pp, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Extensive small offset marks on first and last couple of plates, otherwise interior is very good: clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding, clean outer page edges. Decorative boards show a touch of scuffing, faint handling and shelfworn marks, a couple of scratches. Published without a dust jacket. --- Contents: glossy colour plates (pp 1-16); An Immense Museum of Strangeness: Department of Spatial Fantasies / Heike Munder & Adam Budak (pp 21-29); Psychoanalysis and Space / Anthony Vidler (pp 31-42); Insecurity by Design / Mark Wigley (pp 45-54); Worrying Conditioning of Space / Philippe Rahm (pp 57-62); City of Concrete / Stephen Willats (pp 65-70); glossy colour plates (pp 73-120); Polish translations of texts (pp 121-174); List of works (pp 180-181); Biographies (pp 182-188); glossy colour plates (pp 193-206) -- English-Polish edition (fully bilingual) // This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it, such as agoraphobia, vertigo, and claustrophobia. The publication analyzes spatial emotion in contemporary art and architecture and maps its extremes and multiple overtones. It contains essays by Anthony Vidler on the relation between psychoanalysis and the perception of space, Mark Wigley on insecurity and design, Philippe Rahm on the emotional conditioning of space construction, and Stephen Willats on living conditions in social housing. Featuring works by such artists as Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Buchel, Jan Dibbets, Urs Fischer, H R Giger, Katarzyna Jozefowicz, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Liebeskind, Jane and Louise Wilson, Paul Noble, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul Thek, Monika Sosnowska, and Decosterd & Rahm, the anthology also provides a visual survey of these topics in contemporary art. Designed by Norm, the book was distinguished in "The Most Beautiful Swiss Books" competition in 2003. It was published on the occasion of the exhibition by the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, and Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk.…