Systems of Logic / Logic of Systems (Hardcover)

Hardcover. The Hungarian-born American artist Agnes Denes (1931) gained international acclaim in the 1960s with her multifaceted artistic practice built on the mutual interconnections between science and art. Her artworks fuses diverse media, she was among the first to incorporate the ecological approach into art, utilising mathematics, philosophy, ecology, sociology, and psychology. Her conceptually rooted art links the genres of land art and environmental art as it is to poetry and philosophy, printmaking and installation art. . In the early 1970s Denes coined the term "Eco-Logic", referring to the twin pillars sustaining her complex notion of art, the pairing of ecology and logic. Her environment-conscious public artworks represent radical interventions in the fabric of the landscape or the urban environment. Agnes Denes intends her works as messages addressed to the generations, indeed the civilisations of the future. In the light of our current ecological and climate crisis, her projects and messages could not be more relevant. The exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest presents the most significant themes and projects from Agnes Denes's extraordinary oeuvre within a chronological framework. The Hungarian-born American artist Agnes Denes (born in 1931) gained international acclaim in the 1960s with her multifacetedartistic practice built on the mutual interconnections between science and art. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…