Title & Author:

Nature as artifice : new Dutch landscape in photography and video art / Hans Aarsman [and others] ; [edited by] Maartje van den Heuvel and Tracy Metz.

Publication:

Rotterdam : ALIA/NAi Publishers ; New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], ©2008.

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the Apeldoorn International Triennial from 11 June till 28 September 2008 and in the context of exhibitions at Kröller-Müller Museum, 12 June to 28 September 2008; Pinakothek der Moderne at Neue Pinakothek, 23 October 2008-19 January 2009; and George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, 11 July-4 September, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283).
Nature as artifice / Maartje van den Heuvel -- Hans Aarsman: Dutch scenes -- Wout Berger: Poisoned landscape; Harena aqua palus; Roadside flowers -- Jannes Linders: Landscape in the Netherlands -- Henze Boekhout: Seconds first -- Theo Baart & Cary Markerink: Snelweg; Highways in the Netherlands -- Beauty is not the issue / Tracy Metz -- Hans van der Meer: Dutch fields -- Theo Baart: Bouwlust: the urbanization of a Polder -- Gerco de Ruijter: various works -- Marnix Goossens: Regarding nature -- The extreme makeover / Auke van der Woud -- Driessens & Verstappen: Frankendael 2001 scene G -- Edwin Zwakman: various works -- Hans Werlemann: 16,500,000 colleagues -- Bas Princen: Artificial Arcadia -- Gabor Osz: Permanent daylight -- Slippery histories / Alison Nordstrom -- Frank van der Salm: various works -- Arnoud Holleman: Nieuwkomer -- Gert Jan Kocken: Enschede -- Xavier Ribas: Greenhouse.

Summary:

"In the eyes of the world, the image of the Dutch landscape has boon shape-id by the history of painting. Internationally acclaimed artists like Brueghel and Ruisdael, and later Van Gogh and the early Mondrian created an image of a picturesque rural idyll that look root in the popular imagination. This is still the image of the Netherlands in mass-media and tourism." "Nature as Artifice shows a new and different approach in photography and video art to the landscape of the Netherlands. The eighteen artists presented here in effect replace that painterly vision with an up-front and sometimes confronting image of the Netherlands as the most artificial country in the world. Under the now familiar pressures of urbanization, globalization and the restructuring of the economy, as well as the need to keep the water at bay, the Dutch have extended the human control from the landscape to nature as a whole. This industrialized, urbanized, man-controlled and artificial landscape is the point of departure for the photographers and video artists whose work is shown in this book. They do not judge, but rather observe, analyze and register, and search for new beauty in their changed surroundings."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789056620288
9056620282

Subject:

Landscape photography Exhibitions.
Art, Dutch Exhibitions.
Photographie de paysages Expositions.
Art, Dutch
Landscape photography
Fotokonst Nedeländerna sekelskiftet 2000 utställningskataloger.
Landskapsfotografi Nedeländerna sekelskiftet 2000 utställningskataloger.
Videokonst Nedeländerna sekelskiftet 2000 utställningskataloger.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Aarsman, Hans, 1951-
Heuvel, Maartje van den.
Metz, Tracy.
Kröller-Müller Museum.
Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany)
International Museum of Photography and Film.

New Dutch landscape in photography and video art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261602
Call No.: BIB 192621
Status: Available