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Title
House
.
Creator
Whiteread, Rachel (English sculptor, born 1963)
Date
1993
Cultural Context
English
British
European
Style/Period
Conceptual
Minimal
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Outdoor sculpture
Environmental art
Casts (sculpture)
Buildings
Houses
Dwellings
Victorian
Terrace houses
Row houses
Exterior views
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Overhead views
Exterior walls
Walls
Symbols
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Neighborhoods
Working class
Negative space
Presence
Demolition
Memory
Group identity
Subject
Sculpture
Houses
Row houses
Dwellings
Residential facilities
Walls
Symbols
Neighborhoods
Working class
Demolition
Description
"
Rachel
Whiteread's
House
revived
a
taste
for
outrage
previously
brought
to the
fore
in
Britain
by the
Tate
Bricks
saga
.
Before
its
completion
in
October
1993
it
had
attracted
little
press
interest
. In
November
of that
year
,
however
, a
combination
of
Whiteread
winning
the
Turner
Prize
and the
decision
by the
Neighbourhood
Councillors
of
Bow
that the
work
should be
demolished
led
to a
massive
dispute
.
Defenders
of the
work
argued
that an
English
taste
for
iconoclasm
,
dating
back
to the
sacking
of the
monasteries
, was
being
rekindled.
"
(Caption
,
p.159)
; "In the
1990s
Rachel
Whiteread
was to
carry
out
a
more
overt
reassessment
of the
Minimalist
inheritance
in
very
different
terms
. Her
casts
of the
negative
spaces
surrounding
objects
with
strong
human
associations
such
as
baths
or
bathroom
sinks
had a
precursor
in
one
of
Bruce
Nauman's
enigmatic
sculptures
, A
Cast
of the
Space
Under
My
Chair
(1966-8)
.
However
,
Whiteread
pushed
the
emotive
connotations
of
casting
through
myriad
variations
of
material
and
color
,
registering
the
poignancy
of the
dialectic
between
presence
and
absence
. Her
remarkable
House
(1993)
was
cast
from the
inside
of a
house
in
Bow
,
London
, from
which
the
exterior
was
subsequently
peeled
away
. The
house
had been the
sole
survivor
of a
line
of
Victorian
terraced
houses
,
slated
for
demolition
,
which
symbolized
the
last
vestiges
of a
working-class
community
now
dispersed
among
housing
schemes
.
Although
it
had
never
been
envisaged
as a
permanent
fixture
,
Whiteread's
ghostly
monument
to the
former
dwelling
spoke
eloquently
of the
erasure
of
human
and
social
memory
and
aroused
mixed
but
intense
public
controversy
before
its
removal
by the
local
council.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.157)
Location Depicted
London (England)
England
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Technique
Casting (process)
Work Type
Sculpture
Outdoor sculpture
Environmental art
Casts (sculpture)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.[158], fig.81)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: John Davies.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-09.jpg
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