1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459892303321

Autore

Perry Gillian

Titolo

Playing at home : the house in contemporary art / / Gill Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78023-229-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Art Since the '80s

Disciplina

704.9493064

Soggetti

Home in art

Dwellings in art

Art, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Art, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Family Traces; 2. Scaled Down; 3. Broken Homes; 4. Beach Houses; 5. Haunted Houses; 6. Green Houses; 7. Mobile Homes; Conclusion: Our House?; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Art Since the '80s, a new series from Reaktion Books, seeks to offer compelling surveys of popular themes in contemporary art. In the first book in the series, Gill Perry reveals how the house and the idea of home have inspired a range of imaginative and playful works by artists across the globe. Exploring how artists have engaged with this theme in different contexts-from mobile homes and beach houses to haunted houses and broken homes-Playing at Home shows that our relationship with houses involves complex responses in which gender, race, class, and status overlap, and that through these re



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784668903321

Autore

Rosenzweig Michael L.

Titolo

Win-win ecology : how the earth's species can survive in the midst of human enterprise / / Michael L. Rosenzweig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-19-770243-0

1-280-50239-8

9786610502394

1-4237-4655-4

0-19-803545-4

1-60256-886-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

333.9516

Soggetti

Nature conservation - Economic aspects

Biodiversity conservation - Economic aspects

Human ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preamble; CHAPTER 1 Reconciliation Ecology; CHAPTER 2 Landscape Architecture for the Third Millennium; CHAPTER 3 Prometheus in the Pinelands; CHAPTER 4 Making Money; CHAPTER 5 Hidden Costs; A Personal Witness; CHAPTER 6 Hard-Core Reconciliation; CHAPTER 7 Happy Accidents; CHAPTER 8 The Tyranny of Space; CHAPTER 9 Falling Down the Time Shaft: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Planet; CHAPTER 10 Fighting for Crumbs: The Traditional Forms of Biological Conservation; CHAPTER 11 Extinction Happens; CHAPTER 12 Clearing Hurdles; Notes; Acknowledgments; Illustration Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries? This book, by an ecologist, finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. It shows that reconciliation ecology is the missing tool of conservation, the practical, scientifically based approach that, when added to the rest, will solve the problem of preserving Earth's species.