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This Land (Hardcover)
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This Land (Hardcover)
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David Opdyke's massive collage This Land (as elucidated in this
book by award-winning author Lawrence Weschler) presents a
slow-burning satire of the American Dream as it blunders into the
reality of climate change. This Land is an epic mural fashioned by
New York artist David Opdyke out of vintage American postcards
which he then treated with disconcerting painted interventions.
What at first reads as a panoramic bird's-eye view of an idyllic
alpine valley reveals itself, upon closer examination, to be an
array of connected scenes and vignettes. Across more than five
hundred postcards, each one portraying a distinct slice of
idealized Americana (town squares, mountain highways, main streets
and county seats), Opdyke's acerbic, emotionally jarring
alterations gradually become evident. In this prophetic
refashioning, forests are aflame, tornadoes torque from one card
into the next, a steamboat gets swallowed up whole by some sort of
new megafauna, frogs fall like Biblical hail from the sky. The
human responses form a cacophony of desires and demands, panic and
denial. Biplanes trail banners urging Repent Now!, others insist
Legislative Action Would Be Premature, while still others advertise
seats on an actual Ark. The book This Land affords readers a closer
and closer viewing of Opdyke's devastatingly sardonic take on our
impending ecological future, one in turn enlivened by Lawrence
Weschler's vividly sly blend of artist profile and critical
interpretation. Featuring introductory essays providing background
on the artist and the project as a whole, This Land also divides
the sprawling mural into eight sections to allow for a more
intimate viewing. Interspersed among the detailed visual sections
are insightful thematic essays by Lawrence Weschler and an
afterword that serves as a stirring call to action by civil rights
attorney Maya Wiley. Additionally, the book's jacket is printed on
both sides, folding out to reveal the work in its full grandeur.
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