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Book SynopsisForeword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In
Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.
Trade Review"Just imagine if any of the unreadable high-theory academics from your college art history classes had been storytellers, and you have, say,
Mapping the Empty."—Jenny Price
Bomb Magazine"
Mapping the Empty is as perceptive in its analysis of each distinguished artist as it is in painting the big picture for us: that there's more to understand and appreciate in this mostly empty space than first meets the eye."—Phil Hagen,
Las Vegas Life"An eye-opening introduction to just how much important art is being made in Nevada."—Geoff Schumacher,
Las Vegas CityLifeTable of Contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Color Plates
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Mapping the Empty
- Jim Mccormick
- The Topographical Mind
- RITA DEANIN ABBEY
- Art in the Place of Abstraction
- DENNIS PARKS
- An Art of Modest Means
- WALTER MCNAMARA
- Reassembling Reality
- ROBERT BECKMANN
- Practicing Apocalypse
- MICHAEL HEIZER
- The Perforated Object
- BILL BARKER
- Marketing the Alien(s)
- MARY ANN BONJORNI
- Reconfiguring the West
- Sources
