The Altered Landscape

Pool, Peter E. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0874173302 / ISBN 13: 9780874173307

Published by Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.: Univ of Nevada Pr, 1999

About this Item

Top tip of back cover has a 1/2 inch bruise--visible in photo. Jacket has a one inch closed tear on top of back cover, and a 1/8 inch tear on back cover at top near spine. Faint stain on bottom of jacket on back near spine--did no affect book. Book interior fine. Heavy book that will require additional shipping charges on international orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Altered Landscape
• Publisher: Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.: Univ of Nevada Pr
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874173302
• ISBN 13: 9780874173307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Over the past decade, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno has been assembling a collection of works depicting a broad range of landscapes known as The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection. This book is intended as an introduction to The Altered Landscape Collection. But even more, it introduces readers to the specific aesthetic objectives of the artists creating the photographs and to the larger issues of humankind's attitudes toward and uses of the land. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of work from The Altered Landscape Collection, this book is a breathtaking contribution to the history of contemporary art. Far more than an "art" book, The Altered Landscape is a provocative, richly intelligent exploration of the attitudes and values within which art is made, and of the ways by which artists, and ordinary people, respond to the world around them.