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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Gillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home in art.

Dwellings in art.

Art, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Other Title:

House in contemporay art

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013.

Summary:

'Safe as houses', 'There's no place like home', 'Home is where the heart is' - ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural clichés and contradictory meanings. Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with the idea of 'home', from haunted houses to broken homes, doll's houses to mobile homes. It 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'. Gill Perry argues that an understanding of the roles of irony and play, and the critical potential of the 'everyday', are equal important in our interpretations of artworks on the theme of 'home'. Covering the work of well-known artists, including Tracey Emin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rachel Whiteread, Cornelia Parker, Vito Acconci, Michael Landy, Richard Wilson, Roger Hiorns, Mike Kelley, Agnes Varda and Louise Bourgeois, this book also looks artists who work and travel across continents, for whom home is as shifting notion, such as Do-Ho Suh and Pascale Marthine Tayou. Covering a wide range of media, including installation and film and richly illustrated, Playing at Home is a compelling survey of one of contemporary art's most popular themes. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Family Traces 33

2 Scaled Down 59

3 Broken Homes 89

4 Beach Houses 117

5 Haunted Houses 143

6 Green Houses 171

7 Mobile Homes 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9781780231808

1780231806

OCLC:

834404057