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Mark Cheetham, ‘Landscape & Language: from Conceptualism to Ecoaesthetics’ and Mark with Mariele Neudecker, ‘Re-Inventing Landscape Traditions for the Present’
In the late 1960s, the N. E. Thing Co., a Canadian art collective, produced a series of interventions exploring the connection between landscape and language. They set up road signs next to nondescript stretches of countryside with messages like ‘You … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response, Uncategorized | Tags: Aesthetics, conceptual art, ecoaesthetics, environmentalism, Histories, landscape, Mariele Neudecker, N.E. Thing Co, Politics, Research Forum, sculptural forms, visual art | Leave a commentToshio Watanabe: Ryoanji Garden as the Epitome of Zen Culture
The final lecture in the 2012 Frank Davis Lecture Series was given by Prof Toshio Watanabe, from the University of the Arts, London. At its centre was an extraordinary object, the Ryoanji Garden in Kyoto, regarded as one of the finest … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, art history, canon, Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, gardens, Japan, Lorraine Kuck, narratives, Orient, Research Forum, ritual, sculptural forms, spatial forms, Toshio Watanabe, Zen Buddhism | 1 commentDerek Boshier: From Doris to Chemical Coyboys
A Response The reason for the sheer enjoyment I find in artists’ talks is that they take you away from your books and remind you about the reality of artwork in the context of the person who made it. Derek … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Blake, collaborations, Derek Boshier, happenings, Hockney, location, London, pop art, Prague, Royal College, scale, sculptural forms | Leave a comment
