Critical landscapes : art, space, politics /

Critical landscapes : art, space, politics / edited by Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson. - Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references.

Against the abstraction of space -- After the production of space / Experimental geography : from cultural production to the production of space / Critical day trips : tourism and land-based practice / Sahara Chronicle (2006-9) / On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) / A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012- ) / On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) / Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005- ) / Land claims : space and subjectivity -- Aftermath : two queer artists respond to nuclear spaces / Look again : subjectivity, sovereignity, and Andrea Geyer's Spiral Lands / Earthkeeping, earthshaking / On Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) / What Is a Photograph? (2013) / On Allora and Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001-2) / Where Eagles Dare (2013) / The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011- ) / on The decolonizing architecture art residency Return to Jaffa (2012) / The Border Crossed Us (2011) / Geographies of global capitalism -- Another world, and another ... : Notes on Uneven Geographies / Documenting accumulation by dispossession / On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005-11) / On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006-7) / On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) / On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003-7) / Deep Weather (2013) / On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) / Area of Detail (2010) / Urbanization with No Outside -- The land and the economics of sustainability / Growing ecologies of contemporary art : vignettes from Shanghai / On FlyingCity, All Things Park (2004) / On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) / On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) / On The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Tooklit (2010) / On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) / On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005-8) / On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005-8) / Julian Myers-Szupinska -- Trevor Paglen -- Sarah Kanouse -- Ursula Biemann -- Kirsten Swenson -- Amy Balkin -- Ruth Erickson -- Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska -- Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Jeannine Tang -- Kelly C. Baum -- Nuit Banai -- Yazan Khalili -- Aaron Bobrow-Strain -- Shiloh Krupar -- Nicholas Brown -- Lorenzo Pezzani -- Catherine D'Ignazio, Amber Day, and Nicole Siggins with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things -- T.J. Demos -- Ashley Dawson -- Dongsei Kim -- Kelly C. Baum -- James Nisbet -- Giulia Paoletti -- Ursula Biemann -- Luke Skrebowski -- Lize Mogel -- Janet Kraynak -- Ying Zhou -- Chunghoon Shin -- David Pinder -- Jenna M. Lloyd and Andrew Burridge -- Liz Mogel -- Robby Herbst -- Paul Monty Paret -- Saloni Mathur.

"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"--Provided by publisher.



9780520961319


Landscapes in art.
Landscape architecture.
Art--Political aspects.
Land use--Political aspects.
Cultural landscapes.


Electronic Books.

N8213 / .C758 2015