Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1878237071 ISBN 13: 9781878237071

Verlag: Western Washington University, Western Gallery, 2010

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Critical Messages examines the key environmental issues that face our region and the many ways contemporary Northwest artists are responding to those issues in their artwork. Environmental art is a new kind of mirror, a reflection of our past and a crystal ball holdig visions of the future.

In their approach to environmental concerns, some contemporary artists face critical issues head on: growth management as seen in urban/rural conflict; the connection of transportation and urban sprawl; contested sources of energy; mass production and consumption; toxic management of land, watersheds, and waters; and dramatic climate change. Others accent environmental values such as preservation of wilderness and wetlands, sustainability, and biodiversity; some even work this interest interst out through the strategy of artist and nature as co-agents. Finally, some artists have chosen to enhance the impact of current conditions and challenges by capturing their apocalyptic vision through poignant and dramatic renderings. This book reveals the overlapping causes and effects of these issues in the artworks themselves and in the resounding voices of the artistic messangers.

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Critical Messages examines the key environmental issues that face our region and the many ways contemporary Northwest artists are responding to those issues in their artwork.

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• Verlag: Western Washington University, Western Gallery
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1878237071
• ISBN 13: 9781878237071
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Herausgeber: Clark-Langager Sarah, Dietrich William