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UNINA9910459892303321 |
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Perry Gillian |
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Playing at home : the house in contemporary art / / Gill Perry |
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London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Home in art |
Dwellings in art |
Art, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Art, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910784668903321 |
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Autore |
Rosenzweig Michael L. |
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Win-win ecology : how the earth's species can survive in the midst of human enterprise / / Michael L. Rosenzweig |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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0-19-770243-0 |
1-280-50239-8 |
9786610502394 |
1-4237-4655-4 |
0-19-803545-4 |
1-60256-886-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
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Nature conservation - Economic aspects |
Biodiversity conservation - Economic aspects |
Human ecology |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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. |
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