Writing on Water (Terra Nova Books) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262182114 ISBN 13: 9780262182119

Verlag: MIT Press Ltd, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Water and its multifaceted relationship to humans, as portrayed by a wide range of writers and photographers.

Water links all aspects of our existence. From the politics of watersheds to the romance of turtles climbing up from the sea to the beaches, from Leonardo da Vinci to Octavio Paz, from death at a hot spring to the practicalities of liquidation, the writings in this collection reflect on many aspects of the human encounter with water. The book contains some science, a few plans for managing and protecting water, and plenty of stories, poems, essays, and artwork. The writers include Bob Braine, Robert Grudin, Wilson Harris, George Keithley, David Morse, Octavio Paz, physicist Sidney Perkowitz, Eva Salzman, Ted Steinberg, and Peter Warshall, editor of Whole Earth magazine. Photographers include Cyril Christo, Adam David Clayman, Monique Crépault, Helen M. Ellis, Sally Gall, Margaret McCarthy, Kristin Ordahl, Jerry Uelsmann, and Marie Wilkinson. This is the second in a series of Terra Nova books from MIT Press, which aim to show that environmental issues are cultural and artistic as well as practical and political.

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George Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at October magazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262182114
• ISBN 13: 9780262182119
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Rothenberg David, Ulvaeus Marta
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