Acknowledgements Illustrations List Introduction Chapter 1 Enclosure Inside/Outside The Home and Self Minimalism and Phenomenology Enclosure, Myths and Phenomenology Homes, Transitional Spaces Wallpaper Michael Landy, Semi-detached Chapter 2 Doors and Windows Boundaries Post-war Breaks in the Wall – The Creative Everyday Doors and Windows – Formal Matters Doors – Document and Memory Windows and Doors – The Poetic Everyday Windows – Sight Denied Chapter 3 Female Space Background Women and Confinement Women Artists and Their Experiences Womanhouse Womanhouse – Decorative Techniques and Critical Debates Womanhouse – Female Roles After Womanhouse Chapter 4 Alienation Dada, Surrealism and Freud Domestic Objects Louise Bourgeois – Home and Memory Mona Hatoum – Exile and the Contemporary Uncanny Gregor Schneider – Unhomely Spaces Chapter 5 The Unmade House The Organic Home and the Ruin Establishment Power Art Outside the System Gordon Matta-Clark – Splitting Rachel Whiteread – the Personal and Political Steffi Klenz – Nummianus Chapter 6 Withdrawal Ilya Kabakov – Fantasy Spaces Childhood Dreams Adult Withdrawal – The Bed Shock Chapter 7 Objects, Sentiment and Memory Objects and Identity The Commonplace Display Vessels Perceived Value Notes Bibiography Index