Issue 11: Dwelling on the Everyday: Houses, Ghosts, Ellipses

Summer 2024

Edited by Helen Hills and alice e. sanger

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Section I : Setting the Scene

i. Dwelling on the everyday: Houses, ghosts, ellipses

Helen Hills and alice E. Sanger

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ii. From artist’s house museum to the everyday 

Helen Hills with alice E. Sanger

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Section II : Whose House is it Anyway?

PART 1: CONTESTING CURATION AND CURATING CONTESTATION

1. Whose house is it anyway? Montpelier, Virginia, home of James Madison, and recent controversies

elizabeth chew

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2. Maintaining the machine: Servants in Le Corbusier’s houses for artists 

Isabelle priest

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PART 2: THE PLACE OF MEMORY

3. If, I would.

rasha Ahmad saffarini

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4. Memory and place in the Brinksway photographs of Michael Danyliw

Robert gaunt

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Section III : Paying Homage, Seeking Grace

PART 1: SAINTS’ SHRINES: HOUSING THE HOLY

5. Dwelling and the everyday at Loreto

alice e. sanger

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6. Shrines at home and on the street: Informal religious devotion in Rome ca.1800-1960

alessandra batty

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PART 2: HAUNTED HOMES AND INDICES OF ABSENCE

7. The fragile agency of the draftsman’s house

edoardo piccoli

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8. The Nightingale’s new nest: A glimpse inside Lilli Lehmann’s summer villa

Rosamund cole

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9. Enchantment in Amherst: Why visit a writer’s house?

helen hills

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