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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Gillian, author.

Series:

Art since the '80s.

Art Since the '80s

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:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780232294

1780232292

OCLC:

892244630