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The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art

by (author) Claudette Lauzon

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2017
Category
General, General, Contemporary (1945-), African
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442649828
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $78.00
  • Unknown

    ISBN
    9781487514679
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $65.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442621596
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $66.00

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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.

About the author

Claudette Lauzon is an assistant professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

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