MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
“Beyond Yosemite! A Three-part Guide to Reimagining the American Landscape” Jenny Price writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger, and Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women How are artists reimagining widespread and historically powerful iconic American landscape images? How do they challenge these images to envision nature not as an unpeopled refuge but as places we inhabit? I look at three kinds of art works: paintings and photographs that comment on well-known images; participatory public art events that act out new understandings of landscape; and a project, on the L.A. River (think Grease, Terminator 2), that reimagines a landscape by literally remaking it. April 20, 2012 2:30 - 4:30 PM Building E51-095 Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Contact mcoll...@mit.edu for more information or to be placed on the mailing list.
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