Paperback. Essays explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. Catherine Elwes takes readers on a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image to reveal how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Written in a clear, engaging style and drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism, and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book conveys Elwess belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face. Enlivened by the authors own experiences as a video artist, writer, and curator and informed by conversations with fellow practitioners, the book offers an informed, personal view of the subject. New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of natures aesthetics undermines commitment to ecology. 30b/w illus. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Landscape and the Moving Image (Paperback)
Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1789385822
ISBN 13: 9781789385823
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Essays explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes.

Catherine Elwes takes readers on a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image to reveal how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Written in a clear, engaging style and drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism, and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book conveys Elwes’s belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face. Enlivened by the author’s own experiences as a video artist, writer, and curator and informed by conversations with fellow practitioners, the book offers an informed, personal view of the subject.

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Catherine Elwes is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ).

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