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Beyond perception: The ethics of contemporary earth art.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond perception: The ethics of contemporary earth art./
Author:	Boetzkes, Amanda.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4107.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR32151
ISBN:	9780494321515

Beyond perception: The ethics of contemporary earth art.
Boetzkes, Amanda.

Beyond perception: The ethics of contemporary earth art. - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4107.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2007.

This dissertation considers the aesthetic strategies and ethical implications of contemporary earth art. Drawing from feminist and ecological critiques of phenomenology, it posits that an ethical preoccupation with the earth is identifiable in works that stage the artist's inability to condense natural phenomena into an intelligible art object thereby evidencing the earth's excess beyond the field of perception. Contemporary earth art has the paradoxical goal of evoking the sensorial plenitude of the earth without representing it as such. The first chapter analyzes Robert Smithson's monumental sculpture, the Spiral Jetty (1970), and suggests that the artist deploys the emblem of the whirlpool to express the artwork's constitutive rupture from the earth, a loss that the artwork subsequently discloses in its textual modes, including an essay and a film that document the construction of the sculpture. Chapter two examines the recurrence of the whirlpool motif and other anagrammatic shapes such as black holes, tornadoes, shells and nests, in earth art from the last three decades. In contemporary practices the whirlpool allegorizes an ethical attentiveness to the earth's alterity; not only does it thematize the artwork's separation from perpetual natural regeneration, it signals the artist's withdrawal from the attempt to construct a totalizing perspective of the site. Chapter three addresses performance and installation works that feature the contact between the artist's body and the earth, and in particular, the body's role in delineating the point of friction between the earth's sensorial plenitude and its resistance to representation. Earth artists thereby assert the body as a surface that separates itself out from the earth and receives sensation of it as other. The conclusion summarizes the main arguments of the previous chapters through a discussion of a three-part installation by Chris Drury entitled Whorls (2005).

ISBN: 9780494321515Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Beyond perception: The ethics of contemporary earth art.
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