Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art

by Jennifer Johung

From property deeds to shipping containers to wearable shelters to virtual spaces: what does it mean to draw a spatial boundary? To be at home? In a world in which notions of place are constantly changing, Jennifer Johung looks at new constructions of staying in place--in contemporary site-specific art, digital media, portable architecture, and various other imaginable shelters and sites.

Replacing Home suggests that while "place"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816672881
• ISBN13: 9780816672882
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 7.9"