RACHEL WHITEREAD
House
“A strange and fantastical object which also amounts to one of the most extraordinary and imaginative sculptures created by an English artist this century”
The Independent
Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End was hailed as one of the greatest public sculptures made by an English artist this century. Completed in the autumn of 1993 and demolished in January 1994, House attracted tens of thousands of visitors and generated impassioned debate in local streets, the national press and the House of Commons. This book maps the remarkable public reception precipitated by the short life of an extraordinary sculpture.
Essays by poet and novelist Iain Sinclair, art historian Richard Shone, cultural historian Jon Bird and Simon Watney, cultural geographer Doreen Massey, and architectural writer Anthony Videler explore some of the historical, cultural and political contexts in which House was built, seen and destroyed. Reprinted cartoons and leader columns, editorials and letters detail the passions which House stirred.
Published by Phaidon Press in association with Artangel
ISBN 0 71 83459 9
144 pp., 68 colour and b/w images, 250 x 210 mm
price £ 17.95
order no: AA 01
CDs
Order
