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136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 36 cm
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has travelled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth's landscape. Entropy is Tuft's fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.The exquisite collection of photographs provide a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world. Tuft focuses specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft's work and its significance in the context of climate change. Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, Tuft's newest monograph is packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with her artwork Journey's End featuring the Great Salt Lake. An extraordinary book, Entropy is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.
Artist's Preface -- Nature Through a Different Lens: The Art of Diane Tuft in Context / Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. -- Coastal Requiem / Diane Tuft -- Images from the Florida Keys, Chesapeake Bay, The Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Bangladesh -- Entropy of Water / Dr. Bonnie Baxter -- Entropy / Diane Tuft -- Images from the Great Salt Lake -- Acknowledgments -- Biographies.
Diane Tuft, with essays by Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. and Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135).