Patricia Johanson S House Garden Commission

Author : Xin Wu
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardens
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131916582

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Patricia Johanson's House & Garden Commission by Xin Wu Pdf

Patricia Johanson was one of the earliest minimalist painters and a friend of Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, all artists trying to supersede the Modernist agenda for the arts set by Clement Greenberg. In 1969 the course of her career was dramatically deflected by an unexpected garden commission from the House & Garden magazine. It resulted in 150 garden proposals (146 of which survived and are presented here) and seven companion essays. Neither these proposals nor the essays have ever been published or exhibited as an entity before this book. The House & Garden Commission redefined the course of Johanson's art. She immediately gave up painting and started to create art in landscapes through a highly personal way. This commission reveals an unknown development of the late 60s New York Art world, putting forth a renewal of garden art in defiance of well known cultural trends of the time: formalism and modernism, earthworks and environmentalism. A comparison between Johanson and Scottish poet-gardner Ian Hamilton Finlay demonstrates two parallel attempts to re-instate an ethical dimension in the arts and their profound differences, since Finlay builds an intimate garden upon a return to the classical Mediterranean world, while Johanson translateds non-Western natural ethics and aesthetics into answers to issues of contemporary urban society. Thus the House & Garden Commission proposes, beyond a renewal of garden design, a new role for the visual arts in pursuit of the unfinished project of modernity.

Author : Xin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351554923

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"Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958?010 " by Xin Wu Pdf

Impeccably researched and richly detailed, this book addresses the issue of translation between visual arts and landscape design in the 50 more years career of Patricia Johanson, an important artist in the second half of the twentieth-century. Examining the artist?s search for an "art of the real" as a member of the post-World War II New York art world, and how such pursuit has led her from painting and sculpture to public garden and environmental art, Xin Wu argues for the significance of the process of art creation, challenging the centrality of art objects. This book is an insightful study to confront a crucial question in the history of art through the work of a contemporary artist. It therefore converses with art historians and critics alike, as well as advanced readers of twentieth-century art. Following Johanson's artistic development, from its formation in the 1960s American art scene to the very present day, across the fields of art, architecture, garden, civil engineering and environmental aesthetics, it investigates the process of creation in a transdisciplinary perspective, and reveals a view of art as a domain of exploration of key issues for the contemporary world. The artist's concept of nature is highlighted, and particular impacts of Chinese aesthetics and thought unveiled. Based on extensive analysis of unpublished private archives, Xin Wu offers us the first ever comprehensive scholarly interpretation of Patricia Johanson's oeuvre, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, garden proposals, and built and unbuilt projects in the United States, Brazil, Kenya, and Korea.

Author : Xin Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:836922771

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Patricia Johanson's House & Garden Commission by Xin Wu Pdf

Author : Xin Wu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 140943544X

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Patricia Johanson and the Re-invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010 by Xin Wu Pdf

Impeccably researched and richly detailed, this book addresses the issue of translation between visual arts and landscape design in the 50-year career of American painter and environmental artist Patricia Johanson. Exploring the artist's search for an art of the real as a member of the postwar New York art world, it demonstrates that visual translation cannot be understood solely through the works of art, instead attention must be paid to the process of creation. This book is an insightful attempt to confront a crucial question in the history of art through the work of a contemporary artist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Landscape design
ISBN : 0970098626

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A Field Guide to Patricia Johanson's Works by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Johanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
ISBN : UOM:39015043245136

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Patricia Johanson by Patricia Johanson Pdf

Author : Michel Conan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023257

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Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations by Michel Conan Pdf

Using a variety of critical perspectives, this text demonstrates a renewal of garden design and directions for garden aesthetics, analysing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.) and Bernard Lassus (France).

Author : Carlo Rotella
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520225626

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Good with Their Hands by Carlo Rotella Pdf

"A native of the Rust Belt whose own life resonates with these stories, Rotella has gone to the home turf of his characters, hanging out in boxing gyms and blues clubs, riding along with cops and moviemakers, discussing the future of Brockton with a visionary artist and a pitbull-fancying janitor who both plan to save the city's soul. These people make culture with their hands, and hands become an expressive metaphor for Rotella as he traces the links between their individual talents and the urban scenes in which they flourish. His writing connects what happens on the street to the larger story of urban transformation, especially the shift from a way of life that demanded individuals be "good with their hands" to one that depends on the intellectual and social skills fostered by formal education and service work."

Author : Caffyn Kelley,Patricia Johanson
Publisher : Salt Spring Island, B.C. : Islands Institute
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015068831836

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Art and Survival by Caffyn Kelley,Patricia Johanson Pdf

Patricia Johanson, one of the world's leading eco-artists, insists that art can heal the earth. Using an amazing mixture of art, landscape architecture and science, she creates large-scale public projects that prove her radical yet utterly practical vision. Johanson's graceful designs for sewers, highways, parks and other functional projects around the world link fragmented ecosystems and create conditions that allow endangered species to thrive. This long-awaited first monograph covers all of Johanson's major public projects and looks at their implications for art, architecture, landscape design and urban planning. Includes Johanson's personal history and creative development, drawings, reflections and ideas to inspire younger artists.

Author : Patricia Johanson,Painted Bride Art Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gardens
ISBN : WISC:89076066919

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Patricia Johanson, Public Landscapes by Patricia Johanson,Painted Bride Art Center Pdf

Author : Christine Filippone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549813

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"Science, Technology, and Utopias " by Christine Filippone Pdf

The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women artists, historically excluded from these domains, responded critically, while simultaneously redeploying the products of "Technological Society" into works that promoted ideals of progress and alternative concepts of human community. In this innovative book, author Christine Filippone offers the first focused examination of the conceptual use of science and technology by women artists during and just after the women?s movement. She argues that artists Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann used science and technology to mount a critique on Cold War American society as they saw it?conservative and constricting. Motivated by the contemporary American Women?s Movement, these artists transformed science and technology into new modes of artmaking that transgressed modernist, heroic, painterly styles and subverted the traditional economic structures of the gallery, the museum and the dealer. At the same time, the artists also embraced these domains of knowledge and practice as expressions of hope for a better future. Many found inspiration in the scientific theory of open systems, which investigated "problems of wholeness, dynamic interaction and organization", enabling consideration of the porous boundaries between human bodies and their social, political and nonhuman environments. Filippone also establishes that the theory of open systems not only informed feminist art, but also continued to influence women artists? practice of reclamation and ecological art through the twenty-first century.

Author : Diana Balmori
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119967026

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Drawing and Reinventing Landscape by Diana Balmori Pdf

How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation—whether digital, analog, or hybrid. In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists. Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson Written by a renowned practitioner and educator Features 150 full-color images Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015079680511

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Storr,John Keenen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961881

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Tony Smith by Robert Storr,John Keenen Pdf

Author : Suzanne Lacy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000045767724

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Mapping the Terrain by Suzanne Lacy Pdf

"In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.