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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada"
"A brisk, contemplative, and often brilliant study. . . .
Second Site is an example of how issues of climate change, global politics, and social justice currently inform and redirect the ways in which we understand the history of site-specificity and land art.
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---Enrique Ramirez, Landscape Architecture Magazine"[Nisbet’s] achievement in
Second Site is the way in which he places a number of site-specific works of varying renown into conversation, recontextualizing each through the lens of its secondary effects and impacts, and layering this onto urgent concerns around conservation — both curatorially and ecologically."
---Emily Cadotte, Esse Magazine"[
Second Site] is a welcome addition to a body of literature on site-specificity, or the idea that a particular space or place is integral to the meaning of an artwork, where activities, events, or objects turn a location into a unique site. . . . Concise and thought-provoking."
---Brianne Cohen, caa.reviews
