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Cabin Fever
Edited by Jennifer M. Volland, Bruce Grenville, Stephanie Rebick. Foreword by Kathleen S. Bartels. Preface by Bruce Grenville. Introduction by Jennifer M. Volland.
Cabin Fever traces the course of the cabin in North America—from the simple architecture of colonial settlements to contemporary interpretations feverishly circulated across the Internet—showing how this humble architectural form has been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger cultural identity.
The title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for anxiety resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. But it also plays upon the more consumer-driven definition of "fever": a contagious, usually transient, fascination with an object of desire. Acknowledging the pervasive influence of this typology, Cabin Fever offers a historical survey of the cabin in North America over the past three centuries. Heavily illustrated, it is composed of a selection of notable literature, excerpted texts and iconic images that chronicle the long history of writing and visual documentation of the cabin.
The publication follows a tripartite structure—Shelter, Utopia and Porn—that maps the formal evolution of the cabin typology within a changing set of social and cultural desires. Additional content includes a typological narrative of 20 buildings that trace the development of the cabin from rudimentary shelter to technologically sophisticated retreat and a survey of art that recognizes the cabin as a subject with enduring and complex connotations. Highlights include the work and writings of Edward Abbey, Margaret Atwood, James Benning, W.E.B. DuBois, Walker Evans, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dorothea Lange, Michael Pollan, Rudolph Schindler, Julius Shulman and Henry David Thoreau, among many others.
Abbot Pass Hut, Rocky Mountains, AB, 2017, photographed by Jason Pineau, is reproduced from Cabin Fever.
From American frontier log cabins to alpine huts, emergency shelters, slave housing, fire lookouts, ice shacks, leisure cottages, A-frames, geodesic domes and sustainable micro cabins, every possible fascinating, glamorous, pragmatic and ingenious permutation of the North American rustic dwelling is covered in this jam-packed exhibition catalogue / scholarly volume / lifestyle book for the smart, DIY-design set. Historical photographs, diagrams and texts are combined with new photography, commissioned essays and artworks to create one of the coolest, most giftable books on our list this year. The concepts of Shelter, Utopia and Porn are explored in particular over more than 300 pages in approximately 60 distinct sections, beautifully designed and printed on an assortment of deluxe, coated and uncoated papers. Featured photograph, by Richard Johnson, is "Ice Hut #556, Cochrane, Ghost Lake, Alberta, Canada" (2011). continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 320 pgs / 190 color / 220 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9781988860008 PUBLISHER: Information Office AVAILABLE: 8/28/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by Information Office. Edited by Jennifer M. Volland, Bruce Grenville, Stephanie Rebick. Foreword by Kathleen S. Bartels. Preface by Bruce Grenville. Introduction by Jennifer M. Volland.
Cabin Fever traces the course of the cabin in North America—from the simple architecture of colonial settlements to contemporary interpretations feverishly circulated across the Internet—showing how this humble architectural form has been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger cultural identity.
The title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for anxiety resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. But it also plays upon the more consumer-driven definition of "fever": a contagious, usually transient, fascination with an object of desire. Acknowledging the pervasive influence of this typology, Cabin Fever offers a historical survey of the cabin in North America over the past three centuries. Heavily illustrated, it is composed of a selection of notable literature, excerpted texts and iconic images that chronicle the long history of writing and visual documentation of the cabin.
The publication follows a tripartite structure—Shelter, Utopia and Porn—that maps the formal evolution of the cabin typology within a changing set of social and cultural desires. Additional content includes a typological narrative of 20 buildings that trace the development of the cabin from rudimentary shelter to technologically sophisticated retreat and a survey of art that recognizes the cabin as a subject with enduring and complex connotations. Highlights include the work and writings of Edward Abbey, Margaret Atwood, James Benning, W.E.B. DuBois, Walker Evans, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dorothea Lange, Michael Pollan, Rudolph Schindler, Julius Shulman and Henry David Thoreau, among many others.
