The ethics of Earth art / Amanda Boetzkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boetzkes, Amanda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earthworks (Art).

Earthworks (Art)--History.

Earthworks (Art)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture.

Contents:

Introduction: at the limit of form

Contemporary art and the nature of site

Spiral jetty: allegory and the recovery of the elemental

Ecotechnology and the receptive surface

The body as limit

Conclusion: facing the earth ethically.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4645-0

0-8166-7358-6

OCLC:

670430587