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Nature's Nation : American Art and Environment

Nature's Nation : American Art and Environment

Braddock, A
Kusserow, K
Igoe, L
Richmond-Moll, J
Belarde-Lewis, M

Braddock, A
Kusserow, K
Igoe, L
Richmond-Moll, J
Belarde-Lewis, M

Dion, Mark
en
2018
Boek; 448 p ill
Met bibliografie
Located in: NATUUR EN KUNST
VUBIS: 2:102113

Beschrijving

Tent. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 13-10-2018, 06-01-2019 ; Salem, Peabody Essex Museum, 02-02-2019, 05-05-2019 ; Betonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 25-05-2019, 19-09-2019. - Coll. VAM: Dion, Mark, Project for the Royal Home for the Retirees "Bronbeek", 1993, p. 190 ill. kleur, p. 191-195 tekst. - Groepstentoonstelling onderzoekt invloed en betekenis van de natuur en het milieu in de Amerikaanse kunst van de laatste drie eeuwen. - Public awareness of environmental issues has never been greater, nor has the need for imagining more sustainable and ethical habits of human action and thought, including environmentally informed ways of understanding art history. This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding. Far-reaching in its interpretive approach, Nature's Nation looks at artworks across genres and media - including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, decorative arts, and video - revealing important new discoveries about creative encounters with environmental history and politics through materials, techniques, subjects, and ideas. The book features work by more than one hundred artists, from Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Cole, and Winslow Homer to Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Providing a fascinating and timely reframing of more than three centuries of American art, this volume is a powerful example of how greater ecological consciousness can expand and enrich the discipline of art history.