Other People’s Rooms
Peter Campbell, 7 April 1994
Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Michigan
by Kathryn BishopEckert.
Oxford, 603 pp., £27.50, June 1993,0 19 506149 7 Show More
by Kathryn BishopEckert.
Oxford, 603 pp., £27.50, June 1993,
Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Iowa
by David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim.
Oxford, 565 pp., £27.50, June 1993,0 19 506148 9 Show More
by David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim.
Oxford, 565 pp., £27.50, June 1993,
“... David Halle’s researches earned him a licence amateur voyeurs would kill for. He got to nose about, more or less at will, in other people’s rooms. His study of the landscapes, portraits, snapshots, saints, masks and so forth which a representative group of Americans, in and near New York, have on their walls and shelves, of how they display them and what they say about them, required that he get to know more than a hundred and sixty different houses ... ”
