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Contemporary Art and the Home (Hardcover, [Rev)
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Contemporary Art and the Home (Hardcover, [Rev)
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The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense
relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed
through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing
of a range of cultural issues. How is our interpretation of an
object affected by the domestic environment in which it is placed?
Why choose a stainless steel teapot over a leopard print one? How
do the images hanging on the walls of our homes arrive there? In
placing contemporary art in the context of the 'ordinary' home,
this book embarks on the contentious topic of whether 'high' art
impacts on 'ordinary' people. What is the size and nature of the
audience for contemporary art in Britain? Do people really visit
more art galleries than attend football matches? What is the
significance of the home in relation to such questions? Indeed,
what constitutes 'art' in the home?
This book carefully unpicks these questions as well as the troubled
relationship between the home as a place of comfort and reassurance
and the often unsettling and challenging images offered by
contemporary art. Within the art world, the home has been addressed
as a subject and even used as a temporary gallery and a space for
installations, and yet it is not common for works by today's
avant-garde artists to be conceived and marketed to participate in
the domestic lives that most people live.
Handsomely illustrated, this book unites contemporary art, craft
and design, with sociology, anthropology and cultural studies to
provide an unusual and forthright addition to ongoing art and
culture debates.
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