Landscape and the Moving Image

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By Catherine Elwes

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Landscape and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes explores the intersection of landscape art and experimental moving images from the 1970s onward. The book delves into themes such as ecology, gender, race, colonialism, and our relationships with nonhuman beings. Combining the author's own experience as a video artist, writer, and curator with conversations with peers, it offers an insightful and emotional examination of how artists address and respond to landscape, emphasizing the urgency of environmental challenges.
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This book is well suited for readers interested in contemporary art, film and video studies, environmental issues, and cultural studies. It will especially appeal to artists, film scholars, and eco-conscious audiences seeking a profound exploration of landscape and moving image art's role in confronting ecological crises.

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines commitment to ecology. 30b/w illus.

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Essays explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes.

Landscape and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes takes readers on a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image to reveal how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Written in a clear, engaging style and drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism, and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world.

The book conveys Elwes’s belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face. Enlivened by the author’s own experiences as a video artist, writer, and curator and informed by conversations with fellow practitioners, the book offers an informed, personal view of the subject.

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’This is a beautifully-written, well-researched, thoughtful, generous and passionate book... It offers innovative explorations of how the moving image continues to facilitate understandings of our relationships to ‘natural’ landscapes. An original, often inspirational work presenting a comprehensive up-to-date view from a highly knowledgeable artist.’ – Paul Newland, Journal of British Cinema and Television

Complex yet highly readable, the author draws on her direct artistic experience to highlight embodied and emotional responses to landscape, featuring a wide range of artists working with moving images.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789385823

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 30 Halftones, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 350

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About the Author

Elwes as a practitioner was a key figure in the early phases of video art in the United Kingdom and, at the same time, worked as a curator and critic. Until her retirement, she was professor of moving image art at the University of the Arts London; she is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) and author of Video Art: A Guided Tour (2005) and Installation and the Moving Image (2015).