![Experimental geography [published to accompany the traveling exhibition held at the Richard E. Peeler Art Centre, Indiana, 19 September - 12 December 2008 ; Rochester Art Centre, Minnesota, 7 February - 18 April 2009 ; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, 28 June - 20 September 2009 ; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 21 February 30 May 2010]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780091636586-M.jpg?default=false)
Experimental geography [published to accompany the traveling exhibition held at the Richard E. Peeler Art Cen…
by Thompson, Nato, Kastner, Jeffrey, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Albuquerque Museum, Colby College., Museum of Art, Paglen, Trevor, Independent Curators International, Rochester Art Gallery
A budding movement of geographers and artists explore the world's hidden landscapes, blurring the boundaries between geographical study and artistic experience. More than 100 projects are included - from a photo of a secret CIA prison to a guidebook to factories, prisons, power …
"The manifestations of 'experimental geography' (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of bui…
"The manifestations of 'experimental geography' (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of bui…
A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu's notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial waste. These are some of the …
"The manifestations of 'experimental geography' (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of bui…
A luxurious bilingual edition (Portuguese-English) with images of the landscapes of the various Brazilian biomes: from the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon Forest, passing through the Caatinga, Pampa, etc. The work presents detailed drawings with images-synthesis of the various Bra…
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventi…
"Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp - widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp transformed modern art by abandoning unique art objects in favor of experiences that c…