Through contributions from her 'friends' on Facebook Miranda Whall has compiled a substantial list of artists and artworks inspired by isolation. During these strange times just reading this list of art that has been created with themes that we can all now relate to is a comfort and an inspiration that might just help us through our own isolations.
Miranda's Facebook post -
Friends please help - I am trying to think of cultural references to Beds, Bredrooms, Isolation and Exile and other spurious links... for my students, I need examples of theatre, film, literature and more art.
And so here is the latest updated very long and amazing list of cultural references to beds, bedrooms, isolation and exile, thank you everyone, keep them coming..
(to add to this list look for Miranda Whall on Facebook)
Tracy Emin’s – My Bed 1998
Frida Kahlo – The Dream (The Bed) 1940 and she worked and painted in bed
Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton – The Maybe 1995
Rachel Whiteread – Untitled (Air bed 11) 1992
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Julian Schnabel 2007
Lars Von Trier – Dogville 2003
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Where the Wild Things Are – Bob Ross 1963, book, animation, opera and film by Spike Jonze
Carsten Holler – Revolving Hotel Room 2008
Sophie Calle – The Sleepers 1979
Sophie Calle – The Hotel, Room 47 - 1981
Lindsay Seers – The Lost Room 2003
Kurt Schwitters – Merzbau 1923 – 1937
Louise Bourgeois – Bed 1997
Mona Hatoum – Measures of Distance 1988
Mona Hatoun – Silence 1994
Lucy Gunning – Climbing Around my Room 1998
Xavier de Maitre - A journey Around my Room, 1794 and A Night Voyage Around My Room, 1825
John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Bed Inns for Peace 1969
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space, 1958
Hans Christian Anderson - The Princess and the Pea
Sleeping beauty – Brothers Grimm
Vito Acconci - Seed Bed, 1972
Stanely Kubrick - The Shining, 1980
Abraham Pioncheval – Living inside a Boulder and Bear Performances – 2014, 2017
Tehching Hsieh – One Year Performance – Cage Piece 1978- 79
Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire, 1987
Edouard Manet - Olympia 1865
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper, 1892
The Prisoner TV series, 1967
The Bed Sitting Room – British Comedy TV, 1969
Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma 1998
Little Girl Lost (The Twighlight Zone) 1962
Jean Jacques Beineix - Betty Blue, 1986
Jean Sartre – No Exit ( Huis Clos) 1944
Chris Burden - Bed Piece 1946
Felix Gonzales – Torres- Untitled (Billboard of an empty bed), 1991
Philip Guston – Couple in Bed 1977
Albert Camus - The Plague, 1947
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985
Joy Division – Isolation, 1980
Tom Friedman - 1000 Hours of Staring, 1992 - 97
Bresson - A Man Escaped, 1956
Project - Art B&B Blackpool - https://artbb.org/
Franklin Schaffner - Papillon, 1973
Robert Stevenson - Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1971
Musa Mayer - Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip, 2016
The Philosophy of Solitude, In Our Time by Melvin Bragg https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/in-our-time/id73330895?l=en&i=1000...
Walter Sickert – Jack the Rippers Bedroom 1907
Sarah Lucas – Au Naturel 1994
Antione de Saint- Exupery - The Little Prince, 1943
William Golding - Lord of the Flies –novel 1954, film 1963, 1990
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window, 1954
Soft Cell - Bedsitter Land
Gary Numan – Cars
Andy Warhol – Sleep, 1964
Rosslynd Piggott – High Bed, 1998
Project - Apartment - Apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com
Project - Up in the air, and Further up in the air, Liverpool, 2001 - 2004
Walter Sickert – The Nurse, 1914
Rebecca Horn – Berlin Exercises in 9 Parts; Dreaming under Water, 1974 - 75
George Barry - Death Bed – The Bed that Eats Itself, 1977
William Friedkin - The Exorcist, 1973
Article - The Advantages of Writing in Bed – Orwell, Proust and Churchill - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/28/writing-in-bed-r...
Wes Craven - A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984
Milos Foreman - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975
Sean Penn - Into the Wild, 2007
Philip Granger - The Cargo
David Lynch – Eraserhead, 1977
Ron Mueck - In Bed, 2005
Robert Rauschenberg – Bed, 1955
Life - Melody Gardot – Jazz Singer learnt to play the guitar in bed
Life - A Life Less Ordinary - Erik Satie - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/01/erik-satie-a-life-less-ord...
Edvard Much - Self – Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed, 1940
Sylvia Plath - The Bed Book, 1976
Keane – Bedshaped, 2004
Rob Reiner – Misery, 1990
Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) - Sleep, 1922
Life - Ivor Burtie Gurney – musical arrangements
Project - Alec Finlay A Day of Access – Covid- 19 Creative Toolkit - https://www.dayofaccess.co.uk/2020/03/covid-19-creative-tool-kit.html
Life - Dame Julian or Mother Julian or Juliana of Norwich
Thomas Hirschhorn – Caveman 2002, Re- Sculpt 2018 and Hotel Democracy 2003
The Grimm Brothers – Rapunzel, 1812
Stanley Kubrick - 2001; A Space Odyssey, 1968
Bruce Robinson - Withnail and I, 1987
Nan Goldin – Max and Richard, New York City, 1983 and Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City 1983
Dalton Trumbo - Johny Got his Gun, novel 1939, film 1971
Juliet Chenery – Robson - A Diagnosis of Exclusion, 2010
Brendan Barry - Turn you Bedroom into a Camera Oscura https://m.facebook.com/IlfordPhoto/
Yvonne Rainer - Parts of Some Sextets - 1965 and 2019
Philip Groning – Into Great Silence, 2005
George Michael – In Bed with Paula Yates, 2009
The Big Breakfast – 1992 – 2002
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol, 1843
Robert Southey - Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 1837
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Le Lit (1892) is sweet & subversive.
Susanna Kaysen – Girl Interupted 1993
Good Morning blues – Lead belly 1934 – 1948 – new release 2015
Anthony Storr – Solitude, 1997
Marina Abramovic - Walk through Walls: A Memoir, 2016
Suzanne Vega – Solitude Standing, 1987
Ragnor Kjartansson – Song, 2015
Life - The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2010
Paul Delvaux – The Two Friends, 1967
Life – Joseph Pilates and the development of Pilates while a prisoner in WW1
Jeremy Deller – Open Bedroom, 1993
Daniel Defoe – A journal of the Plague Year, 1722
Telematic Dreaming, 1992
Moyra Davey – Notes on Blue, 2015
Life – Ai Wei Wei works made and on being in exile
Jodie Mim - The Yellow Wallpaper, 2018
Christian Volckman - The Room, 2019
Lenny Abrahamson – Room, 2015
Ray Bradbury – The Pedestrian, 1957
Julio Cortazar – House Taken Over, 1944
Magritte – The Reckless Sleeper, 1928
Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf, 1927
Joseph Beuys – I like America and America Likes Me, 1974
Life – Emily Dickenson
Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet, 1923
Brenda Chamberlain – Tide Race, 1996
Fancis Bacon – Three Studies of Figures on Beds and other paintings featuring beds, 1972
Patrik Jarlestam and Jonas Bernander - The Four thousand four hundred and forty fourth day )Den 444:e dagen), 2012 - https://youtu.be/Q5BUis7BOKY
Life – Cameron Hooker’s captive Colleen Stan; The Girl in the Box
John Fowles - The Collector, 1963
Taika Waititi - Jojo Rabbit, 2019
Karen Mamma Anderson – Tick Tock, 2011
Munch – Puberty, 1884, The Sick Child, 1907
Degas – The Interior (The Rape), 1869 – 69
Eric Fischl – Bad boy, 1981
Edvard Munch - Self-portrait with the Spanish Flu, 1919
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night, 1934
Steptoe and Son – Episode - Divided We Stand, 27th March 1972
Enda Walsh - A Girls Bedroom, 2015
Brian Lobel - 'You have to forgive me' / 'Hold my hand we're half way there' / 'Binge' 2014 – on going
Jurgen Leth - The Perfect Human, 1967
Richard Billingham - Ray in bed - 2000
Ferenc Karinthy – Metropole, 1970
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Knights Tale, The Canterbury Tales (middle English)
John Gower - Confessio Amantis (middle English)
In most Morecambe and Wise, Terry and June, and Father Ted episodes there was a bedroom sketch..
Virginia Woolf – A Room of Ones Own, 1928
Virginia Woolf – on Being Ill, 1926
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962
Bethe Morisot - Getting out of Bed, 1885 – 86
Sesame Street; Bert & Ernie – Dance Myself to Sleep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biAMh-xdvJc
Sesame Street; Bert & Ernie – Cookies in Bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0gpqBCi7Q0
Sesame Street; Ernie pretends that Bert’s here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFbX9q-bTXM
Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank, 1944
Behrouz Boochani – No Friend But the Mountains, 2018
Lasse Hallstrom – My Life as a Dog, 1985
Michael Frayn – A very Private Life, 1968
Gemma Copp - Bound within a Hidden Space 2004
Shani Rhys James - Black Cot exhibition 2004, Stroke Paintings 2018-2020
Brith Gof - D.O.A. 1993
good cop bad cop - Loop 1998
Derek Cianfrance - The Light Between Oceans, 2016