Category: Landscape
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Land Art
‘Land art’ is a conceptually-based approach approach to making art that emerged in the 1970s. The nature of earth and land art requires the media of film and photography to document outcomes and incorporates aspects of performance art and sculpture. Land Art: The focus is not on describing the place itself, but representing the artist’s experience of visiting or travelling…
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Mapping and Other Technologies
A ‘map’ isn’t necessarily something used to navigate through unfamiliar territory; it’s also a visual ordering of features and information…a means of making sense of our physical surroundings in new ways. Alexander 2013 p67 Liz Nicol the Rubber Band Project (1997) Ian Brown’s series Walking the Land (2007) Other artists and photographers who layer numerous different photographs include Idris Khan,…
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The Road
The road has featured prominently in art and literature as a means to get characters from one place to another, and as a stage for narratives to be played out. It has been used as a symbol for: notion of a journey – attaining greater understanding and with a coming of age, as explored in The…