Publisher's Synopsis
"The room is not only the universe but also the etui of the private person. To live means to leave traces. The room is the inner, essential trace pattern of the internal lives of people". This is a book about rooms. On the surface, the book shows what people do in rooms. However, the real story lies beneath the surface where Kovitz postulates that rooms have traditionally been the places man tries to return to the womb and hide from the reality of the world, and have become a manifestation of people's anxiety over their own paranoia. He draws images from extremely varied sources, from 16th century woodcuts to New York City Police Department crime scene headers to LA tattoo parlours. The text is drawn from equally varied sources, from the Bible to Charles Bukowski to anthropological studies of children's TV shows.
