The ethics of earth art / Amanda Boetzkes.

Main entry:

Boetzkes, Amanda.

Title & Author:

The ethics of earth art / Amanda Boetzkes.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Description:

ix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: at the limit of form -- Contemporary art and the nature of site -- Spiral jetty: allegory and the recovery of the elemental -- Ecotechnology and the receptive surface -- The body as limit -- Conclusion: facing the earth ethically.

Summary:

"In The Ethics of Earth Art, Amanda Boetzkes analyzes the development of the earth art movement, arguing that such diverse artists as Robert Smithson, Ana Mendieta, James Turrell, Jackie Brookner, Olafur Eliasson, Basia Irland, and Ichi Ikeda are connected through their elucidation of the earth as a domain of ethical concern. Boetzkes contends that in basing their works' relationship to the natural world on receptivity rather than representation, earth artists take an ethical stance that counters both the instrumental view that seeks to master nature and the Romantic view that posits a return to a mythical state of unencumbered continuity with nature. By incorporating receptive surfaces into their work - film footage of glaring sunlight, an aperture in a chamber that opens to the sky, or a porous armature on which vegetation grows - earth artists articulate the dilemma of representation that nature presents."--Pub. desc.

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ISBN:

9780816665884 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816665885 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816665891 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816665893 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Earthworks (Art) Moral and ethical aspects.
Art and morals.
Land art Aspect moral.
Art et morale.
21.99 other art forms.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269174
Call No.: BIB 201233
Status: Available

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