Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art/ by Gill Perry

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Perry, Gill

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Reaktion Books Ltd; 2013Description: 263 pISBN:

9781780231808

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DDC classification:

704.9 PER 23 12859

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Marium Abdulla Library Non-Ref	Fine Arts	704.9 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	12859

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.

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