The House of Art

The term «house of art» 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 century to the beginning of the 20, 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 «house of art» 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.

Andrzej Pie-kos is Professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He was a guest researcher at the Universities of Mainz and Vienna and lectured in Geneva, Rennes, and Paris, where he was granted a Mellon Fellowship. He authored several books and edited numerous publications on the houses of artists.

Contents: Workshops - Houses - Gardens - Painters - Writers - Composers.