1 option
Beverly Buchanan: Marsh Ruins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groom, Amelia, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Earth sciences.
- Feminism and art.
- Sculpture.
- Art History.
- Geoscience.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Essays
- Critical Writing.
- Essay.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Afterall, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Beverly Buchanan's Marsh Ruins (1981) are large, solid mounds of cement and shell-based tabby concrete, yet their presence has always been elusive. Hiding in the tall grasses and brackish waters of the Marshes of Glynn, on the southeast coast of Georgia, the Marsh Ruins merge with their surroundings as they enact a curious and delicate tension between destruction and endurance. This volume offers an illustrated examination of Buchanan's environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination. Amelia Groom illuminates Buchanan's vision of sculptural ruination, and probes her remarkable work in terms of ideas of witnessing, documentation, landscape, and cultural memory. Existing in dialogue with land art and postminimalist sculpture, the Marsh Ruins are nevertheless unique refusals of art world classifications and systems of value. Making abstract use of concrete forms, Buchanan's works embody their own stakes, from colonialism's legacies of fracture and dislocation, to the workings of weather and time. In the words of her own mother, Buchanan had always "seen things" in rocks that others didn't see."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.