Biographies and Space

Highly original and thought provoking essays by a group of internationally recognized scholars consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race in respect of actual (architectural) and imagined (pictorial) space. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of the formation of identity in a variety of historical circumstances. Biographical methods of historical investigation have received much attention in recent years. They can bring out the authentic voice of subjects, revealing personal meanings and strategies in space as well as providing a means to analyze relations between the personal and the social. This volume focuses on the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographies and Space highlights an increasing fluidity and interaction between theory, methods and history and focuses on recent developments. This is an innovative and topical volume that is an essential addition to the architectural and art history literature.Arnold, Dana is the author of 'Biographies and Space' with ISBN 9780415365512 and ISBN 0415365511.