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Playing at home: the house in contemporary art - 2

Part of the Art Since the '80s series
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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.

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Product Details
Reaktion Books
1780232292 / 9781780232294
eBook (EPUB)
05/04/2013
England
English
240 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Previously issued in print: 2013 Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.