[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY 4-20-2012

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

 

“Beyond Yosemite! A Three-part Guide to Reimagining the American Landscape”

 

Jenny Price

writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger, and

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

 

How are artists reimagining widespread and historically powerful iconic American landscape images? How do they challenge these images to envision nature not as an unpeopled refuge but as places we inhabit? I look at three kinds of art works: paintings and photographs that comment on well-known images; participatory public art events that act out new understandings of landscape; and a project, on the L.A. River (think Grease, Terminator 2), that reimagines a landscape by literally remaking it.

 

April 20, 2012

2:30 - 4:30 PM

Building E51-095

Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge

 

Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.  Contact mcollett at mit.edu for more information or to be placed on the mailing list.


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