Playing at Home
Subtitle: The House in Contemporary Art
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781780231808
Subjects: Art, modern, 20th century; Art criticism; Art, modern, 21st century
Description: 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 relationships we turn a house into a home.