The home studio as hybrid space
The book examines the artist's home-studio as a space where domestic life and creative production intermingle rather than stay separate. Where an artist works shapes what and how they make.
Artists at Home
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Gender and the domestic studio
A dedicated section addresses how women artists negotiated home studios amid domestic and caregiving demands. The home studio is read as both an enabler and a constraint gendered by circumstance.
Live-work communities of 1970s-90s
Case studies trace artist live-work communities from the 1970s through the 1990s as collective experiments in blending life and art. These communities show alternatives to the lone-studio model.
Interviews plus scholarship
The volume interweaves artists' own interviews with essays by art, design, and architectural historians. Combining first-person testimony with analysis is its method for reading the home studio.
Rethinking the artist's relationship to home
A final strand reconsiders how contemporary artists relate to domesticity, blurring the inherited split between the sacred studio and the ordinary house. The book argues home and art practice are no longer cleanly separable categories.