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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787038203321

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

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