WHAT DOES A FAMILY LOOK like? Is it easily-conceived, rosy-cheeked children and devoted parents living in a detached suburban house? This was, in the West at least, the goal. But today, thanks to advances in science, law and social attitudes ‘family’ means a myriad of things.
These are explored by some 120 artworks in the forthcoming Real Families exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge including works by the likes of Tracey Emin, Joshua Reynolds, Grayson Perry and Lucian Freud.
These paintings, drawings and sculptures show that there are countless ways a family can look, something the show’s curator Professor Susan Golombok knows only too well.
“I’m not a usual curator; I’m not an art historian, I’m a psychologist,” she says, explaining that she is the director of the Centre for Family Research at Cambridge University,
