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A look at one of the first feminist artists, Pictorialist
photographer Anne Brigman, best known for her iconic landscape
photographs made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes outdoors
in rugged northern California. This main volume of a previously
published slipcased edition is the catalogue of the major
retrospective exhibition that took place in 2018 at the Nevada
Museum of Art, and remains the first comprehensive book to
chronicle the photography of Anne W. Brigman (1869-1950), one of
the most important of all American women photographers. This
monumental publication rediscovers and celebrates the work of
Brigman, whose photography was considered radical for its time. For
Brigman to objectify her own nude body as the subject of her
photographs in the turn of the 20th century was groundbreaking; to
do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting was
revolutionary. Brigman's significance spanned both coasts: in
northern California, where she lived, she was known as a poet, a
critic, and a member of the Pictorialist photography movement,
whose practitioners employed various methods of manipulation to
achieve images that were considered beautiful and romantic. On the
east coast, her work was promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, who
published her photographs in Camera Work and elected her as a
Fellow of the prestigious Photo-Secession. The beautifully produced
large-format book is devoted to Brigman's entire career, covering
such topics as Brigman's work within the contexts of the California
Arts & Crafts movement and New York Modernism; her relationship
to High Sierra mountaineering and early 20th-century poetry; and
the relevance of her work to contemporary conversations regarding
gendered landscapes of the American frontier.
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Lita Albuquerque - Stellar Axis (Hardcover)
Lita Albuquerque, William L Fox, Ann M Wolfe; Introduction by Selma Holo; Foreword by Roger F. Malina
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The first monograph on the acclaimed American environmental artist
Lita Albuquerque, whose works belong to the Land Art generation,
alongside James Turrell, Christo, Robert Smithson, and others.
Known internationally for her temporary and ephemeral
installations, paintings, and sculptures, Lita Albuquerque uses the
most unusual and challenging of Earth's surfaces as a canvas:
Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert, and South
Dakota's Badlands. She "paints" with a variety of mediums,
including brightly clad humans or fabricated spheres, which form
patterns over vast, wide-open spaces. This beautifully designed
survey of her career highlights Stellar Axis, for which Albuquerque
led an expedition to the South Pole to create the first installment
of a groundbreaking global project. In addition to essays placing
the artist's works in the broader contexts of environmental art and
science, Albuquerque provides personal reflections on her life's
work.
British conceptual and landscape artist Chris Drury has been lauded
for his many installations and site-specific works that investigate
themes related to the environment and emphasize cycles of
destruction and regeneration in nature and the ways that humans
affect these processes. In Mushrooms-Clouds, a series of artworks
commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Drury brought an
international perspective to topics ranging from land and water
appropriation to nuclear testing in the American West. In many of
these works, Drury utilizes materials collected from such places as
Pyramid Lake, Donner State Park, and the Nevada Test Site to engage
viewers in the many connections between art and the environment.
This companion volume to the exhibition documents Drury's
installations and captures his ephemeral work for further viewing
and extended study. In addition, the book""includes an introduction
by art historian Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and an essay by Colin
Robertson, the Nevada Museum of Art Curator of Education, which
expound upon the themes and significance of Drury's art.
Suburbia has occupied a conflicted place in American life since the
end of World War II, when the edges of cities across the nation
began rapidly transforming into small metropolises of their own.
California was at the heart of that boom, and in "Suburban Escape
"Ann M. Wolfe offers a compelling look at the history and culture
of California sprawl through art, from the 1950s to the present.
"Suburban Escape "presents the work of more than fifty renowned
artists who use painting, photography, sculpture, and other media
to examine the changes that suburbia has wrought on the physical,
political, and social environments of California. The generic
blandness of tract-home architecture, the negative--and
positive--environmental impacts of suburban land-use patterns, and
suburbs' ever-changing cultural and ethnic demographics become fuel
for the artistic imaginations of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams, Jeff
Brouws and Fandra Chang, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, Joel
Sternfeld and Lewis Baltz, Laurie Brown and Larry Sultan, Richard
Misrach and Camilo Jose Vergara, and dozens more.
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