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UnNaturally / essay by curator Mary-Kay Lombino ; with a short story by Philip K. Dick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature in art--Exhibitions.
- Nature in art.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Un naturally
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Independent Curators International, [2003]
- Summary:
- Employing artificial materials to create simulations of nature, the 18 artists featured in UnNaturally explore the ways in which the boundaries between nature and culture are sometimes blurred. Works by Tim Hawkinson, lnigo Manglano-Ovalle, Roxy Paine, Marc Quinn, and Francis Whitehead play on our nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial past in which man and nature coexisted harmoniously in an unspoiled landscape, the same nostalgia that has given rise to constructed environments in malls, zoos, and other themed entertainment destinations where nature is tamed and packaged for consumer use. Through an art of studied verisimilitude, impressive craftsmanship, and occasional deadpan use of irony, the artists presented here suggest that the natural world can be reproduced with man-made materials just like any other mass-produced commercial product.
- Contents:
- Chris Astley
- Gregory Crewdson
- Jacci Den Hartog
- Allan deSouza
- Keith Edmier
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
- Jason Middlebrook
- Nicoletta Munroe
- Roxy Paine
- Michael Pierzynski
- Marc Quinn
- Michelle Segre
- Alyson Shotz
- Frances Whitehead
- Clara Williams.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., Jan. 13-Mar. 8, 2003; H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 19-Oct. 29, 2003; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 21, 2003-Jan. 17, 2004; F. Donald Kenney Museum, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, N.Y., Feb. 3-March 30, 2004; Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food & Arts, Napa, Calif., Apr. 20-Aug. 16, 2004; and Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Sept. 14-Nov. 14, 2004.
- ISBN:
- 0916365662
- OCLC:
- 52468842
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