Burning Down the House (Bilingual edition): Rethinking Family - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775758429 ISBN 13: 9783775758420

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

Overview volume of contemporary art practices examining problems, beliefs and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies

The family is a rare topic in contemporary art. Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family engages with the family as a tradition, idea, and lived reality. The exhibition untangles some of the crucial problems, beliefs, and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies, bringing together works by forty artists―ranging from the mid 1970s to the present, as well as selected works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen―in which notions of family, and representations of the stereotypical, bourgeois family in particular, are problematized.

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Overview volume of contemporary art practices examining problems, beliefs and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies.

The family is a rare topic in contemporary art. While feminist artists have thematized their roles as women, caretakers and mothers, a critical engagement with the topic of the family, one that goes beyond mere representation, has largely been absent. Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family untangles some of the crucial problems, beliefs and contradictions that the f

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775758429
• ISBN 13: 9783775758420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Bühler Melanie