Landscape and the Moving Image
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-568-7 (ISBN)
Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day.
Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book is informed by the belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face.
The book comprises a series of essays that explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. Early chapters map the theoretical terrain for both landscape and artists’ moving image creating a foundation for the chapters that follow devoted to practice. These address themes of identity politics, performativity and animals and examine examples of British ‘weather-blown films’ and work from around the world including Indigenous Australian film landscapes. The book offers an informed, personal view of the subject and threaded through the narrative is a concern with the environment and the vexed question of whether an appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines a commitment to ecology.
The book is written in a clear, engaging style and is enlivened by Elwes's own experiences as a video artist, writer and curator, and the primary material she draws on derived from conversations with fellow practitioners across the years.
As a practitioner, Elwes was a key figure in the early phases of video art in the UK as well as a curator and critic. She was professor of moving image art at the University of the Arts London; and is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ)
This book will appeal to students, undergraduate and post-graduate, Ph.D. candidates, researchers, practitioners, teachers and lecturers and a general readership of interested gallery-going public.
Elwes as a practitioner was a key figure in the early phases of video art in the United Kingdom and, at the same time, worked as a curator and critic. Until her retirement, she was professor of moving image art at the University of the Arts London; she is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) and author of Video Art: A Guided Tour (2005) and Installation and the Moving Image (2015).
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
- The semiotics of the view
- Eco-critical practices
- The indivisibility of the human subject and nature
- The text
- The parameters
- Author’s note
2. The Terms of Engagement
- Landscape, space and place
- Inside and outside
- The ethnographic eye and documentary: Negotiations of the real
- The contested status of the real
- Taking a step back – crossing over
3. The Invention of Landscape
- Landscape, the antithesis of city life
- The sublime, the spiritual and the indifference of nature
- The picturesque and the pastoral
- The return of the picturesque and the romantic sublime
4. The Social Construction of Landscape
- National identity, society and history
- Framing trauma in the landscape
- Property, ownership, colonialism and class identity
5. Landscape Subjectivities
- Do you see what I see?
- The perceiving subject
- A template for seeing, touching, hearing and feeling
- Emotion, affect and sensation in nature
6. Painted Landscapes
- The tools of the trade
- Taking the eye for a walk – perspectives in painting
- The great outdoors
7. Frames and Sequences
- Photographing the view
- Slide-tape: Landscape in series
8. Talking Pictures: Narrative, Time, Colour and Sound
- ‘Nature caught in the act’
- Narrative film: Background and foreground
- The time base
- Colour and black-and-white
- Sound and silence
9. Talking Pictures: Framing the View and the Spectator
- Framing the view
- Point of view: The restless eye
- The spectator
10. Artists’ Moving Image
- ‘Unmade Narratives’: Experimental film
- Video: The travelling companion
- Digital media: No man’s land
- Photogénie and the entanglement of matter
11. Weather-Blown Film
- River Yar (1971–72), William Raban and Chris Welsby
- Theory: Clouds and clocks
- Wind Vane (1972), Chris Welsby
- Feedback: Cybernetics
12. Being-With: Rocks, Sea and Sky
- La Région Centrale (1971), Michael Snow
- Aspect (2004), Emily Richardson
- Sea-changed film: R.V. Ramani and David Gatten
- This Is My Land (2006), Ben Rivers
- Dawn Burn (1975–76), Mary Lucier
- Interwoven Motion (2004), Chris Meigh-Andrews
- The wide blue yonder: Semiconductor, Susan Collins, James Turrell and James Benning
13. Getting the Shivers: Empathic Projection and the Elements
- Jack Lauder and Lloyd Branson, Zacharias Kunuk, Oscar Muñoz, Bill Viola, Joan Jonas and William Raban
14. Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the ‘Vexed’ Question of Landscape
- Preconceptions
- The antipodean gaze
- Refiguring landscapes
- Imagining a future
15. Landscape and Identity Politics
- Signatures
- Slavery and the African Diaspora: The Black body in the landscape
- Mother Earth
- Queering the landscape
- Fault lines – masculinity
16. Performing the Landscape
- Acting out in Merrie England
- Performing matter
- Shifting the scenery
17. Animals
- A pantomime of animals
- Captive animals: A transaction of the gaze
- ‘Companion animals’
- Cruelty to animals
- Discreet courtship
18. Postscript
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 Halftones, color |
| Verlagsort | Bristol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78938-568-7 / 1789385687 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78938-568-7 / 9781789385687 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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