Field Language presents the work of an extraordinary couple who
together left the rural lifeways of their Mennonite upbringing to
go “into the world” to create forms of modern art that
reflected on the places and culture they came from. Published on
the occasion of a retrospective exhibition devoted to the working
relationship between abstract painter Warren Rohrer and his wife,
poet Jane Turner Rohrer, this sumptuously illustrated book explores
the Rohrers’ painting and poetry in relation to their biographies
and to the nature of modernism and modernity. The artists, poets,
and historians contributing to this volume present a variety of
perspectives on the Rohrers, situating their work within the
context of modernism, the changing agricultural landscapes of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the aestheticization of local
craft practices. Through the work of these two highly original and
creative artists, Field Language invites readers to consider
relationships between global art movements and local visual
cultures, issues of land use, the sustainability of rural
communities and cultures, and our own relationships with
agricultural landscapes, seasonal change, labor, and human need and
desire. In addition to the editors, the contributors include
Christopher Campbell, Steven Z. Levine, Nancy Locke, Sally McMurry,
Janneken Smucker, William R. Valerio, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and
Douglas Witmer.
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