Ragain, M: Domesticating the Invisible

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-34382-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Domesticating the Invisible examines how postwar notions of form developed in response to newly perceived environmental threats, in turn inspiring artists to model plastic composition on natural systems often invisible to the human eye. Melissa S. Ragain focuses on the history of art education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to understand how an environmental approach to form inspired new art programs at Harvard and MIT. As they embraced scientistic theories of composition, these institutions also cultivated young artists as environmental agents who could influence urban design and contribute to an ecologically sensitive public sphere. Ragain combines institutional and intellectual histories to map how the emergency of environmental crisis altered foundational modernist assumptions about form, transforming questions about aesthetic judgment into questions about an ethical relationship to the environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ragain, Melissa S.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 

Introduction
1. Visual Field Theory: Nature and Composition in Twentieth-Century Boston 
2. Reality’s Invisible: Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard
3. The Arts of Environment: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT 
4. Eco-Art and Rudolf Arnheim’s Cellular Metaphor 
5. Jack Burnham and the "Disposable Transient Environment"

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa S. Ragain is Associate Professor of Art History at Montana State University. She is the editor of Jack Burnham’s collected writings, Dissolve into Comprehension: Writing and Interviews 1964–2004, and has written for journals including X-Tra, Art Journal, and American Art.