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Domesticating the invisible : form and environmental anxiety in postwar America / Melissa S. Ragain.
Author
Ragain, Melissa, 1978-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Description
viii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
N346.M42 C36 2021
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Art
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Study and teaching (Higher)
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Massachusetts
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Cambridge
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Human ecology in art
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Artists and architects
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Massachusetts
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Cambridge
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Art, American
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Massachusetts
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Cambridge
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20th century
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Summary note
"This book examines how postwar notions of form developed in response to newly perceived environmental threats, which inspired artists to model plastic composition on natural systems often invisible to the human eye. Melissa S. Ragain focuses on the history of art education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to understand how an environmental approach to form inspired new art programs at Harvard and MIT. As they embraced scientistic theories of composition, these institutions also cultivated young artists as environmental agents who could influence urban design and contribute to an ecologically sensitive public sphere. Ragain combines institutional and intellectual histories to map how the emergency of environmental crisis altered foundational modernist assumptions about form, transforming questions about aesthetic judgment into questions about an ethical relationship to the environment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : domesticating the invisible
Visual field theory : nature and composition in twentieth-century Boston
Reality's invisible : visual and environmental studies at Harvard
The Art of the environment : center for advanced visual studies, MIT
Eco-art and Rudolf Arnheim's cellular metaphor
Jack Burnham and "The disposable transient environment".
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ISBN
9780520343825 (hardcover)
0520343824 (hardcover)
LCCN
2020006811
OCLC
1142879069
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