Racz, Imogen
Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday
- ISBN 13:
- 9781501359866
- author:
- Racz, Imogen
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 256
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Criticism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, recollect childhood memories, or withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. The home is a rich theme in post-war western art, continuing to engage contemporary artists today. Despite its significance, the home has been relatively under-explored in critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday offers a timely discussion on this subject, focusing on sculpture, installation, and object-based practice. The book examines how the physical experience of dwelling spaces and psychological complexities of domestic life are manifested in art. Imogen Racz explores the work and ideas of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal, and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts, providing a theme-led discussion that sheds new light on this important topic.
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