Studio Lives [Hardcover]

This book describes how architects collaborated with artists in the creation of studios and studio-dwellings. Looking at the studios of ten individual artists and three artist-couples between 1892 and 1938, it reveals how the illustrated press shaped the image of the modern artist, and the ways in which architecture conveyed personal values, artistic affinities and professional aspirations.

Studios are discussed not simply in terms of architectural design, but as places whose character derived from the tastes and needs of their users. Relationships between artist and architect shifted significantly between thefin-de-si?cleand the Second World War. Rather than allowing their architects a free hand, artists proved demanding and opinionated clients. Their interaction illuminates the changing nature of architectural practice in the first part of the 20th century, and how artists survived in a volatile art market. The book  focused on studio life as much as studio architecture  offers a fresh perspective on British art in the modern period.

By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture  occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones  and, in doing so, shows them coming to terms with the past, and in the process, inventing different modes of being modern.
Louise Campbell is an Emeritus Professor in Art History at the University of Warwick where she lectured from 1977 until her retirement in 2014. She is a specialist in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, has edited books on Basil Spence and on Twentieth Century Architecture and has written books on Coventry Cathedral.Section I: Legacies;?Chapter 1;?Chapter 2;?Section II: The Studio as Home;?Chapter 3;?Chapter 4;?Chapter 5;?Section III: After the Victorians;?Chapter 6;?Chapter 7;?Chapter 8;?Chapter 9;?Chapter 10;?Chapter 11;?Chapter 12ló*