Land Art: Expanding the Atlas

Land Art: Expanding the Atlas Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, June 26, 2021–January 2, 2022. Building on the museum’s comprehensive Center for Art + Environment collection, curator Ann M. Wolfe saw the question of Land art’s relevance in fractal form. Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon’s 2012 exhibition Ends...

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Published in:CAA.reviews (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2022
Main Author: Susanna Phillips Newbury
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Art exhibits
Art galleries & museums
Climate change
Contemporary art
Documentation
Ephemera
Genre
Land surveys
Politics
Visual artists
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Summary:Land Art: Expanding the Atlas Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, June 26, 2021–January 2, 2022. Building on the museum’s comprehensive Center for Art + Environment collection, curator Ann M. Wolfe saw the question of Land art’s relevance in fractal form. Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon’s 2012 exhibition Ends of the Earth at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, similarly drew on documentation, ephemera, and poststudio practice references to showcase the genre as essentially a media category focused on site. An emerging body of literature proposes ecocritical art histories that place emphasis on decolonization and environmental justice, notably Andrew Patrizio’s The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History (Manchester University Press, 2019) and the recently published Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (Routledge, 2021), edited by Subhankar Banerjee, T. J. Demos, and Emily Eliza Scott.
ISSN:1543-950X
DOI:10.3202/caa.reviews.2022.17