If family is often considered the backbone of civilization, it has undergone serious rethinking over the past few decades. Most disciplines, from sociology to psychotherapy to economics, have had their turn at analyzing, theorizing and representing the family in all its many forms. In Family Ties, the relationships that bind families are explored via nearly 60 contemporary artists. Alice Neel paints mother daughter portraits; Nicholas Nixon photographs his wife and her three sisters every year for 25 years; Larry Fink documents the blue-collar Sabatines; Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin, who grew up, respectively, in middle-class black Christian and white Jewish families, run parallel slide shows of their childhood Kodak moments; and Roger Shimomura renders pop images from the Japanese internment camps where his family spent part of his childhood. Published in conjunction with Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and an exhibition opening there in June 2003. (Jun 21 - Sep 21.03)
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Trevor Fairbrother is a free-lance writer and curator. He has organized exhibitions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Seattle Art Museum; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.
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NOT Sarah Vowell,
This review is from: Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective (Perfect Paperback)
This is not a book by Sarah Vowell. There is one essay by Sarah at the back of the book that has been reprinted from "Take the Canoli". This is not historical humor and has none of Ms. Vowell's biting wit or snarkasm.
This IS a book of photographs of the collection from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts with meandering paragraphs (and paragraphs) of description of each. I couldn't send it back fast enough. Which Amazon refunded promptly and have corrected the author line at the top of this page. Thankfully.
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