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Real families : stories of change / Susan Golombok.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Cambridge : Paul Holberton Publishing ; Fitzwilliam Museum, 2023.Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781913645519
  • 1913645517
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Contents:
Foreword / Luke Syson
Stories of change / Susan Golombok
What is a family? A Sunday kind of love / Jackie Kay
Annunciations: three women talk back to tradition / Rebecca Birrell
Everyday Madonnas / Rosie Millard
Family transitions Legitimising motherhood / Katy Hessel
Attachment and human experience / Pasco Fearon
Siblings: a love-hate relationship / Claire Hughes
Roman charity and modern families / Mary Beard
Family dynamics Much to give thanks for / Andrew Solomon
The visitiaiton / Dorothy Byrne
Family Legacies Who you think you are / Alex Graham
There will be blood / Olivia Laing
Summary: What is a family, and how is family experienced? These questions, explored through artists’ eyes, are at the heart of Real Families: Stories of Change, a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research. This catalog presents the exhibition in four sections, containing twelve illuminating essays that discuss the concept of the family. It focuses on art produced in the past fifty years, a period of significant change in how families are created and structured, with historical works woven throughout to examine what is genuinely new and what has remained the same about the family. The catalog includes reproductions of paintings, photography, and sculptures that examine the wider social, cultural, and political influences on family relationships, from aging, fertility, divorce, LGBTQ+ perspectives, and adoption. Artists featured include Alice Neel, Chantal Joffe, Sunil Gupta, Donald Rodney, Nan Goldin, Paula Rego and Lucian Freud.

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 6 October 2023 - 7 January 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Luke Syson

Stories of change / Susan Golombok

What is a family? A Sunday kind of love / Jackie Kay

Annunciations: three women talk back to tradition / Rebecca Birrell

Everyday Madonnas / Rosie Millard

Family transitions Legitimising motherhood / Katy Hessel

Attachment and human experience / Pasco Fearon

Siblings: a love-hate relationship / Claire Hughes

Roman charity and modern families / Mary Beard

Family dynamics Much to give thanks for / Andrew Solomon

The visitiaiton / Dorothy Byrne

Family Legacies Who you think you are / Alex Graham

There will be blood / Olivia Laing

What is a family, and how is family experienced? These questions, explored through artists’ eyes, are at the heart of Real Families: Stories of Change, a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research. This catalog presents the exhibition in four sections, containing twelve illuminating essays that discuss the concept of the family. It focuses on art produced in the past fifty years, a period of significant change in how families are created and structured, with historical works woven throughout to examine what is genuinely new and what has remained the same about the family. The catalog includes reproductions of paintings, photography, and sculptures that examine the wider social, cultural, and political influences on family relationships, from aging, fertility, divorce, LGBTQ+ perspectives, and adoption. Artists featured include Alice Neel, Chantal Joffe, Sunil Gupta, Donald Rodney, Nan Goldin, Paula Rego and Lucian Freud.