Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789143058)

Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things--decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands--are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past--the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues--are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art, and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism.

Author: John Beck
ISBN-10: 1789143055
ISBN-13: 9781789143058
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d