Landscape as weapon : cultures of exhaustion and refusal /
Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant-garde, abandoned places and things--decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands--are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the ag...
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| Language: | English |
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London, UK :
Reaktion Books,
2021.
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| Summary: | Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant-garde, abandoned places and things--decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands--are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past--the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues--are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art, and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism.--from dust jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789143058 1789143055 |