Undermining : a wild ride through land use, politics, and art in the changing West / Lucy R. Lippard.
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TextDescription: vii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN: - 9781595586193 (pbk.)
- 1595586199 (pbk.)
- 304.23 LIP
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 304.23 LIP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100561159 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." --Rebecca Solnit
In Undermining , the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( Kirkus Reviews ).
Working from her own experience of life in a New Mexico village, and inspired by the gravel pits in the surrounding landscape, Lippard addresses a number of fascinating themes--including fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water. In her meditations, she illuminates the relationship between culture, industry, and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the "subterranean economy."
Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining offers a provocative new perspective on the relationship between art and place in a rapidly shifting society.
"[Lippard's] strength lies in the depth of [her] commitment--her dual loyalty to tradition and modernity and her effort to restore the broken connection between the two." --Suzi Gablik, The New York Times Book Review
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-200).
Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America\'s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place (The New York Times), Lippard now turns her keen eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West. Working from her own lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape, Lippard weaves a number of fascinating themes--among them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water--into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the subterranean economy. Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining is a must-read for anyone eager to explore a new way of understanding the relationship between art and place in a rapidly shifting society. -- Provided by publisher.