In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon...

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Main Author:	Lauzon, Claudette (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural spaces
Subjects:	Art Foyer dans l'art Habitations dans l'art Habitations ART / Subjects & Themes / General Art, Modern ART Dwellings in art Dwellings Home in art SOCIAL SCIENCE Art, Modern > 21st century Dwellings > Social aspects Wohnung > Motiv Kunst 2000-2099 Electronic books
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that 'home' is a stable site of belonging. Lauzon's boundary-breaking discussion of artists including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sanitago Sierra, Doris Salcedo, and Yto Barrada posits that contemporary art offers a unique set of responses to questions of home and belonging in an increasingly unwelcoming world. From the legacies of Colombia's 'dirty war' to migrant North African workers crossing the Mediterranean, The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art bears witness to the suffering of others whose overriding notion of home reveals the universality of human vulnerability and the limits of empathy
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:	1442621583 1442621591 1487514670 9781442621589 9781442621596 9781487514679