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Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical investigation can bring out the authentic voice of subjects, revealing personal meanings and strategies in space as well as providing a means to analyze relations between the personal and the social. Writing about both actual (architectural) and imagined (pictorial) space, the authors consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race, highlighting an increasing fluidity and interaction between theory, methods and history. Biographies and Space is an original and exciting new book, with direct relevance to both architectural and art history.

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Author:   Dana Arnold (University of Southampton, UK) ,  Joanna Sofaer Derevenski (University of Southampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415365512

ISBN 10:   0415365511
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   14 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Dana Arnold and Joanna Sofaer 1. (Auto)Biographies and Space Dana Arnold 2. Living the Romantic Landscape (after Deleuze and Guattari) Andrew Ballantyne 3. ?€?Life as a ride on the Metro?€?: Pierre Bourdieu on Biography and Space Hélène Lipstadt 4. ?€?This scarlet intruder?€?: biography interrupted in the dining room at Tatton Park Mansion Eleanor Quince 5. Amsterdam eternal and fleeting: time in two personal histories Nancy Stieber 6. Turner: space, persona, authority Sam Smiles 7. Mapping the 'bios' in two graphic systems with gender in mind: Reading Van Gogh through Charlotte Salomon and vice versa Griselda Pollock 8. Biography and spatial experience in contemporary disaporic art in Britain Dorothy Rowe 9. The art of reconciliation: autobiography and objectivity in the work of Aldo Rossi Belgin Turan ?–zkaya 10. Disinter/est: Digging up our childhood. Authenticity, ambiguity and failure in the auto/biography of the infant self Joanna Sofaer and Joshua Sofaer

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Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton. She has written extensively on art and architectural history and theory. Recent books include Rural Urbanism (2006); Art History: a very short introduction (2004) and the edited volume Rethinking Architectural Historiography (2006) Joanna Sofaer is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She has published widely on ancient and modern material culture. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), and editor of Material Identities (2007).

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