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Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010 book cover

1st Edition

Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010

By Xin Wu Copyright 2013
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

Impeccably researched and richly detailed, this book addresses the issue of translation between visual arts and landscape design in the 50 more years career of Patricia Johanson, an important artist in the second half of the twentieth-century. Examining the artist’s search for an "art of the real" as a member of the post-World War II New York art world, and how such pursuit has led her from... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Transformation: from painting to sculpture, 1958-1968; The invention of form: House & Garden commission, 1969; Translating the order of nature; Garden metamorphoses, 1975-1985; Functionality into public place; ’The garden of art’ in garden-cities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Xin Wu is Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of William & Mary, and author of the two-volume monograph Patricia Johanson’s House & Garden Commission: Reconstruction of Modernity (2008) as well as books and articles on the history of representation of nature in China.

'... a meaningful contribution to the artist’s oeuvre that provides insight into her creative impact on public environmental art. This work would make a great addition to academic libraries that collect materials related to garden history, earthworks, or Johanson’s work as an artist.' ARLIS/NA Reviews

'... a welcome and timely addition to the literature of landscape design.' Studio International

'Xin Wu’s recent study of Johanson explores the artist’s work as negotiating between these multiple fields as well as meriting consideration within art historical chronologies. For Wu, Johanson’s art constitutes a new-and relevant-form of contemporary public art practice.' Journal of American Culture

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