LANDSCAPES AFTER RUSKIN: Redefining the Sublime

Sternfeld, Joel

ISBN 10: 3777429899 ISBN 13: 9783777429892

Published by (Hall Art Foundation / Hirmer Publishers / Grey Art Gallery), (Reading, VT / Munich / New York), 2018

Language: English

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First printing of this work published in conjunction with an exhibition curated by Sternfeld, featuring work by William Wegman, David Wojnarowicz, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, Christiane Baumgartner, Bruce Nauman, and many others. 11'' x 10''. Original pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. 160 pages. Color plates throughout.

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LANDSCAPES AFTER RUSKIN: Redefining the Sublime

Publisher

(Hall Art Foundation / Hirmer Publishers / Grey Art Gallery), (Reading, VT / Munich / New York)

Publication Date

2018

Language

English

ISBN 10

3777429899

ISBN 13

9783777429892

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Fine.

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John Ruskin was an influential English art critic and social thinker of the Victorian era, who famously argued that the principal concern of the artist is “truth to nature.” For Ruskin, this truth entailed more than merely adept technical representation, but rather, should depict the natural world as mankind experiences it, with all the sensations of both beauty and terror it elicits.
Today, in a world overwhelmed by industrial development and environmental uncertainty, contemporary artists are discovering new beauties and terrors associated with nature, invoking a sense of the sublime that is uniquely modern. Landscapes after Ruskin explores how a joyful experience of nature is now mixed with a particular dread as the earth and its atmosphere are increasingly touched by human activity. This striking volume probes the contemporary sites of the new sublime—from a steel factory couched in a nature park to the aerial view of a bombed city, and from mutating chromosomes to construction sites in suburbia—through essays by artists, photographers, and art historians, as well as experts in environmental studies and philosophy. Featuring more than fifty awe-inspiring artworks—from world-renowned artists such as Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Katherine Bradford, Christo, Gustave Courbet, Spencer Finch, Eric Fischl, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Joel Sternfeld, and Ai Weiwei—Landscapes after Ruskin offers compelling, and at times chilling, insight into the truth of the natural world today.

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Joel Sternfeld is a renowned and influential artist and photographer who lives and works in New York City. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships.

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