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A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time
transform the meaning of site-specific art In the decades after
World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used
the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific artworks.
Second Site offers a powerful meditation on how environmental
change and the passage of time alter and transform the meanings-and
sometimes appearances-of works created to inhabit a specific place.
James Nisbet offers fresh approaches to well-known artworks by Ant
Farm, Rebecca Belmore, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Robert
Smithson. He also examines the work of less recognized artists such
as Agnes Denes, Bonnie Devine, and herman de vries. Nisbet tracks
the vicissitudes wrought by climate change and urban development on
site-specific artworks, taking readers from the plains of Amarillo,
Texas, to a field of volcanic rock in Mexico City, to abandoned
quarries in Finland. Providing vital perspectives on what it means
to endure in an ecologically volatile world, Second Site challenges
long-held beliefs about the permanency of site-based art, with
implications for the understanding and conservation of artistic
creation and cultural heritage.
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A Symposium on Kant (Paperback)
Edward G. Ballard, Richard L. Barber, James Kern Feibleman, Carl H. Hamburg, Harold N. Lee, …
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R1,431
Discovery Miles 14 310
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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HE past does not change; it cannot, for what has happened T cannot
be undone. Yet how are we to understand what has happened? Our
perspective on it lies in the present, and is subject to continual
change. These changes, made in the light of our new knowledge and
new experience, call for fresh evaluations and constant
reconsideration. It is now one hundred fifty years since the death
of Immanuel Kant, and this, the third volume of Tulane Studies in
Philosophy is dedicated to the commemoration of the event. The
diversity of the contributions to the volume serve as one
indication of Kant's persistent importance in philoso phy. His work
marks one of the most enormous turns in the whole history of human
thought, and there is still much to be done in estimating its
achievement. His writings have not been easy to assimilate. The
exposition is difficult and labored; it is replete with
ambiguities, and even with what often appear to be contradictions.
Such writings allow for great latitude in interpretation. Yet who
would dare .to omit Kant from the account? The force of a man's
work is measured by his influence on other thinkers; and here, Kant
has few superiors. Of no man whose impact upon the history of ideas
has been as great as that of Kant can it be said with finality:
this 5 6 TULANE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY is his philosophy."
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