Biographies & Space

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton. She has written extensively on art and architectural history and theory. Recent books include Rural Urbanism (2006); Art History: a very short introduction (2004) and the edited volume Rethinking Architectural Historiography (2006)Joanna Sofaer is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She has published widely on ancient and modern material culture. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), and editor of Material Identities (2007).

• Introduction Dana Arnold and Joanna Sofaer 1. (Auto)Biographies and Space Dana Arnold 2. Living the Romantic Landscape (after Deleuze and Guattari) Andrew Ballantyne 3. ?€?Life as a ride on the Metro?€?: Pierre Bourdieu on Biography and Space Hélène Lipstadt 4. ?€?This scarlet intruder?€?: biography interrupted in the dining room at Tatton Park Mansion Eleanor Quince 5. Amsterdam eternal and fleeting: time in two personal histories Nancy Stieber 6. Turner: space, persona, authority Sam Smiles 7. Mapping the 'bios' in two graphic systems with gender in mind: Reading Van Gogh through Charlotte Salomon and vice versa Griselda Pollock 8. Biography and spatial experience in contemporary disaporic art in Britain Dorothy Rowe 9. The art of reconciliation: autobiography and objectivity in the work of Aldo Rossi Belgin Turan ?–zkaya 10. Disinter/est: Digging up our childhood. Authenticity, ambiguity and failure in the auto/biography of the infant self Joanna Sofaer and Joshua Sofaer

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