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As the global village evolves
technology plays an increasingly dominant role. Our
machines are designed by machines, scaled to the
technology and the designer fits his work to the format
of these machines. The landscape and our experience of
nature remains essential to our well-being but is not
considered in the equation. What Marshall McLuhan called
the synaesthetic dimension of global village technology
creates a hierarchy of information and images, but
lessens the integrity of private thought and our
unconscious volition to creative impulse. Intertwining presents a variety of articles under the themes of landscape, issues, technology and artists that encourage reflection on the intertwining of these elements in our daily life. Over forty essays and reviews in all, topics include the effects of the internet on museums and education; artists working in and around a nature park; agriculture as art; artists' response to a site first colonized by the Jesuits in the north; the artist's response to breast cancer; to animal rights; to violence and childrens' toys; to art and illness. Artists include Barbara Hepworth, Dieter Appelt, Natalya Nesterova, Carl Beam, James Carl, Stephen Lack, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Francesc Bordas, Louise Bourgeois, and East European artist S ndor Pinczehelyi's perspective on art after the demise of communism. About the authorJohn K. Grande is a well-known art critic and writer. His reviews and feature articles have been published extensively. He is the 1994 winner of Prix Lison Dubreuil for art criticism, and is a graduate in art history from the University of Toronto. Previously published with Black Rose Books: Balance: Art and Nature. |
Publication Date: January 1998
320 pages, photographs index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-110-0 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-111-9 $53.99