Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art

(Paperback)

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Playing at Homeexplores the different ways in which artistshave engaged with this popular everydaytheme from 'broken homes' to hauntedhouses, doll's houses, mobile homes andgreenhouses. The book considers how issuesof gender, identity, class and place can overlapand interact in our relationships with'home', and how certain artworks disturbour comfortable ideas of what it means tobe 'at home'.

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"A book that has readers demanding more is always praiseworthy, and Gil Perry's ability to read a work of art, and explain it accessibly, while still honouring the artist's often complex intentions, is both rare and valuable. For this alone Playing at Home is welcome."-- "Times Literary Supplement"

Author Bio

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).