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A landscape is far more than just a view. It is charged with history, with politics and ideas that cut deep into our awareness. Mariele Neudecker’s work keeps returning to the landscape tradition in art, but through this she deals with questions around placement, collective experience and memory. Neudecker is very interested in our perception of the world and how we hold on, re-create and memorize these experiences.Through the use of a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography, she examines what defines the line between nature and landscape, and reflects on how to define the contemporary sublime. Her practice investigates the formation and historical diss...
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A major monograph presenting more than 200 works from the 35-year career of Professor Mariele Neudecker, a German-born, Bristol-based multimedia artist working at the crossover of art and science. Contributors: Greer Crawley, Prof. Klaus Dodds, Dominic Gray, Ariane Koek, Pontus Kyander, Úna McCarthy, Prof. Kerstin Mey, James Peto, and Alice Sharp.
"Plastic vanitas is a series of photographic artworks by Mariele Neudecker that re-presents the collection of the MoDiP collection as vanitas still lifes"--Page 8.
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Mariele Neudecker is known internationally for her captivating investigations of the natural world. Using film, video, photography and sculpture, including the creation of haunting miniatured landscapes in glass tanks, Neudecker probes the gap between human perception and the reality we all inhabit. Her interest in the social, psychological and historical spaces we live in is central to her work. The works featured in this publication and the accompanying exhibition at Tate St Ives highlight her involvement with the Romantic concept of the sublime in a Cornish context. The works featured are in a range of media including two new tank works and a recent film project, Winterreise The book includes essays by David Blayney Brown, senior curator at Tate and writer and composer Douglas Young bringing new perspectives to the works of this important artist.
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"'Among the trees' brings together more than 30 international artists whose works explore our relationships with trees and forests. Beginning with pioneering works from the late 1960s - a decade that saw the emergence of the modern environmental movement - 'Among the trees' surveys a remarkably expansive artistic terrain. It invites us to consider trees as symbols and living organisms that have shaped human civilisation, and to celebrate their enduring resonance as a source of inspiration for some of the most compelling artists of our time" - back cover
Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the ‘seas around us’. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the ...
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