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Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art
Gill Perry
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Description for Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art
Paperback. Playing at Home explores the different ways in which contemporary artists have engaged with ideas of the house and home - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. Num Pages: 240 pages, 45 colour, 75 black and white. BIC Classification: ACX; AGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
'There's no place like home'; 'safe as houses'; 'home is where the heart is': ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural cliches and contradictory meanings. 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'. While other books have ... Read more
'There's no place like home'; 'safe as houses'; 'home is where the heart is': ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural cliches and contradictory meanings. 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'. While other books have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780231808
SKU
V9781780231808
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Gill Perry
Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University, uk. Her books include Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde (1995), Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theatre, 1768 - 1820 (2007) and Themes in Contemporary Art (editor, 2004).
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