Ecologies, environments, and energy systems in art of the 1960s and 1970s / James Nisbet.

Main entry:

Nisbet, James, 1981-

Title & Author:

Ecologies, environments, and energy systems in art of the 1960s and 1970s / James Nisbet.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Description:

x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-261) and index.
Total environments -- Planetary visions : land art, minimalism, and the whole earth -- The art of processing : anti form, energy, and ecological materiality -- A brief moment in the history of photoenergy : Walter De Maria's Lightning field.

Summary:

" ... Investigates they many levels in intersection between ecology and art in the 1960s and 1970s, examining a series of works that served as sensory interfaces to ecological concepts and reflected the shifting notions of ecology during the period."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780262026703 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262026708 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013. Lightning field.
De Maria, Walter, 1935-.
Art, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
Ecology in art.
Art 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
21.99 other art forms.
Art, Modern Themes, motives
1960-1979

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285942
Call No.: BIB 225956
Status: Available

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