Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

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Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Domesticity Under Siege

Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia), Terry Meade

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
12 January 2023

Theory of architecture; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Interior design, decor & style guides

Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of ‘home as haven’. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents.

Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in ‘safety and comfort’, it is argued as a place in which the individual exercises control or power. However, there are many occasions when forces act upon the home and threaten aspects of safety and comfort, often through such things as ruination, violence, mortality, and infestation.

Organised around four thematic sections, ‘Microbes, Animals and Insects’, ‘Human Agents’, Wars and Disasters as Agents’ and ‘Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny’, chapters provide a range of approaches to the home which challenge notions of ‘haven’ and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore the domestic screen, hoarding, hauntings, violence and imprisonment in the home, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte’s 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns (‘The Murderers are Among Us’).

Edited by: Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia), Terry Meade
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350166110
ISBN 10: 1350166111
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 12 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture and Chair of Architectural and Industrial Design at Swinburne University, Australia. Georgina Downey is Visiting Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Terry Meade is Principal Lecturer of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.