Family Author:Jessica Hough, Doug Hall, Mark Bennett, Alan Berliner, Sanford Biggers, Genevieve Cadieux, Chrissy Conant, John Corbin, Patricia Cronin, Laura Dunn, Margi Geerlinks, Travis Geery, Geof Huth, Ginger Krebs, Maria Marshall, Sean Mellyn, Tatsumi Orimoto What role does the family play in the construction of identity? How has the social and political structure of the family changed? How have artists reacted to and/or documented societal reality and the changing role of the family? Family explores these questions and others in an effort to understand how humanity's oldest social structure h... more »as evolved and adapted to life in the 21st century. Expanding beyond the hyped notion of "family values" and the supposed breakdown of the family, this volume includes related work by 38 artists--from Sanford Biggers, Richard Billingham, Louise Bourgeois, and Sophie Calle, to Nicole Eisenman, Margi Geerlinks, Nan Goldin, and Adrian Piper--and poems by 10 contemporary poets including Robert Hass, Louise Glück and Cal Bedieut. In place of the traditional essays found in art catalogues, each artist submitted a brief essay or quote on the concept of family and its relevance to their lives and work.
Artists Include: Mark Bennett, Alan Berliner, Sanford Biggers, Richard Billingham, Louise Bourgeois, Geneviève Cadieux, Sophie Calle, Chrissy Conant, John Corbin, Patricia Cronin, Laura Dunn, Nicole Eisenman, Margi Geerlinks, Travis Geery, Maria Marshall, Josiah McElheny, Olu Oguibe, Adrian Piper, Barbara Pollack, Faith Ringgold,Mira Schor, Jonathan Seliger, Tony Tasset, Chris Verene, Mark Wallinger, Allan Wexler, and Jin-me Yoon, amongst others. Foreword by Harry Philbrick.