Trans plant : living vegetation in contemporary art / [edited by] Barbara Nemitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nemitz, Barbara, 1948-

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Plants in art.

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Transplant

Place of Publication:

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution in the US D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, 2000.

Language Note:

English and German.

Summary:

In the 1960s, as installation and conceptual art opened up new possibilities for materials and media, artists began to use plants, vegetation, soil, and the actual landscape to develop their ideas. Dubbed "land art, " this work, with its implicit environmentalism, did not seek, like topiary or traditional landscape architecture, to impose a decorative or functional order, but rather to find in organic material a way to renew art's elemental relationship to nature. This book documents works by more than 60 artists -- including Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jenny Holzer, Dan Graham, and Jeff Koons -- for the Artist's Gardens Project in Weimar, Germany.

Notes:

"This book is published as a part of KünstlerGärten Weimar"-- Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (page 203) and indexes.

ISBN:

389322971X

OCLC:

43983653