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From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies.

Title Critical Landscapes : Art, Space, Politics / Emily Eliza Scott, Kirsten J Swenson.
Publisher Berkeley, CA : University of California Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use -- 1. After the Production of Space -- 2. Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space1 -- 3. Critical Day Trips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice -- 4. Sahara Chronicle (2006-9) -- 5. On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) -- 6. A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012-) -- 7. On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) -- 8. Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005-) -- 9. Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces -- 10. Look Again: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, and Andrea Geyer's Spiral Lands -- 11. Earthkeeping, Earthshaking -- 12. Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) -- 13. What Is a Photograph? (2013) -- 14. On Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001-2) -- 15. Where Eagles Dare (2013) -- 16. The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011-) -- 17. On The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Return to Jaff a (2012) -- 18. The Border Crossed Us (2011) -- 19. Another World, and Another . . . : Notes on Uneven Geographies -- 20. Documenting Accumulation by Dispossession -- 21. On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005-11) -- 22. On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006-7) -- 23. On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) -- 24. On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003-7) -- 25. Deep Weather (2013) -- 26. On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) -- 27. Area of Detail (2010) -- 28. The Land and the Economics of Sustainability -- 29. Growing Ecologies of Contemporary Art: Vignettes from Shanghai -- 30. On FlyingCity, All-things Park (2004) -- 31. On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) -- 32. On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) -- 33. On the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Toolkit (2010) -- 34. On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) -- 35. On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005-8) -- 36. On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005-8) -- CONTRIBUTORS
Extent 1 online resource (273 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997007876708905171
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