Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape - John Beardsley

. .

Auteur(s) : John Beardsley

Editeur : Abbeville Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2006

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 240.0

Expédition : 37

ISBN : 9780789208811

Résumé :

This invaluable volume now includes the most recent efforts by artists often in collaboration with architects and city planners to transform ravaged landscapes and desolate cityscapes into pleasure-giving parks and artworks.

The book begins with an enlightening introduction tracing the historical roots of art in the landscape: Stonehenge, Indian mounds, cliff dwellings, park design from 18th-century England to modern-day golf courses. The opening chapter deals with such innovative artists as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Walter De Maria, and Christo, who in the 1960s began to free their art from the confines of tradition by constructing monumental sculptures in the environment. The following chapters discuss their predecessors, peers, and successors, including Constantin Brancusi, Herbert Bayer, Richard Long, James Turrell, and many others. The final four chapters (chapter 7 is entirely new) explore at length the increasing involvement of artists in land reclamation and urban design, featuring projects by Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Mel Chin, Maya Lin, and many others.

...

Biographie:
and the proceedings of the 2010 symposium, Designing Wildlife Habitats and the 2013 symposium, Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Trained as an art historian, with an AB from Harvard and a PhD from the University of Virginia, he is the author of numerous books on contemporary art and design, including Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape (fourth edition, 2006) and Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists (1995), as well as many titles on recent landscape architecture. He has extensive experience as a curator for numerous museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Among the exhibitions he has organized or co-organized are Black Folk Art in America (Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982)...

Sommaire:

As Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, John Beardsley oversees a fellowship program, a lecture series, an annual symposium, a publications program, summer internships, and a series of installations of contemporary art in the institution's historic gardens, as well as a new Mellon-funded initiative in urban landscape studies. Recent publications include the edited volumes Landscape Body Dwelling: Charles Simonds at Dumbarton Oaks...