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Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat book cover

1st Edition

Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City Creative Retreat

By Sarah Lowndes Copyright 2018
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris Burden, detailing their connections to the cities they had left behind (New York, London, Los Angeles).... Read more

Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I; Introduction ; 1 The Back to the Land Movement: from the 1840s to the 1970s; PART II; The Creative Homesteads of Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman and Chris Burden; 2 We are Born as Nouns Not Verbs: Agnes Martin and the New Mexico Desert (1968-2004); 3 Vaster than Empires and More Slow: Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent (1987-1994; 4 In a Free Spot: Chris Burden and Topanga Canyon, California (1984-2015); PART III; The Rise of the Town-Country: Contemporary Creative Homesteaders; 5 The Lure of the Midsize Metro: Leipzig; 6 Neither City nor Country: Hastings; 7 In the ruins, a garden: Detroit; Conclusion; Index

Biography

Sarah Lowndes is a writer and curator who lectures at Glasgow School of Art and other institutions

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