Playing at Home The House in Contemporary Art |
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| Author:
| Perry, Gill |
| Series title: | Art since The '80s Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78023-180-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with this popular everyday theme - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. The book considers how issues of gender, identity, class and place can overlap and interact in our relationships with 'home', and how certain artworks disturb our comfortable ideas of what it means to be 'at home'.
Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with this popular everyday theme - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. The book considers how issues of gender, identity, class and place can overlap and interact in our relationships with 'home', and how certain artworks disturb our comfortable ideas of what it means to be 'at home'.