Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City

Name: Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138712607
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Creative Retreat

By Sarah Lowndes

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

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Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City explores the journeys of creative practitioners who chose life beyond urban centres from the mid-1960s onward. Sarah Lowndes profiles figures such as desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and conceptual artist Chris Burden, illuminating their ties to major cities like New York, London, and Los Angeles. The book also investigates how digital technologies have facilitated artistic work away from traditional art hubs, highlighting emerging creative scenes in Hastings, Leipzig, and Detroit.
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This title will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, cultural geography, and the evolving dynamics of creativity outside metropolitan contexts. It is ideal for art history students, practising artists, and cultural scholars intrigued by the intersections of place, creativity, and technology.

This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads.

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This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris Burden, detailing their connections to the cities they had left behind (New York, London, Los Angeles).

Sarah Lowndes also examines how the rise of digital technologies has made it more possible for artists to live and work outside the major art centres, especially given the rising cost of living in London, Berlin, and New York. Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City focuses on three peripheral creative centres: the seaside town of Hastings, England, the midsized metro of Leipzig, Germany, and post-industrial Detroit, USA.