Download or read book Home written by Arien Mack and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, based on a multi-institutional collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five major New York City museums, and its resulting conference in October 1990, addresses historical and contemporary meanings of home. Among the issues specifically addressed are the artistic rendition of home in art and propaganda; literary meanings of home; exile through the ages; homelessness past; homelessness and Dickens; alienation and belonging; and the home and family in historical perspective. Includes illustrations. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR