Full Description
Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Color Plates
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the Empty
Jim Mccormick
The Topographical Mind
RITA DEANIN ABBEY
Art in the Place of Abstraction
DENNIS PARKS
An Art of Modest Means
WALTER MCNAMARA
Reassembling Reality
ROBERT BECKMANN
Practicing Apocalypse
MICHAEL HEIZER
The Perforated Object
BILL BARKER
Marketing the Alien(s)
MARY ANN BONJORNI
Reconfiguring the West
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