Zeit Contemporary Art Explores the Captivating Power of Nature in Art
NEW YORK CITY, New York
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Zeit Contemporary Art is pleased to present Seeing Nature, an online viewing room through July 15th, showcasing modern, postwar, and contemporary works related to being in, looking at, and interacting with nature. These artists represent their personal emotions and associations regarding the natural world; as revealed, the experience can result in a range of feelings, alternately joy, awe, wonder, peace, spiritual resonance, or even fear. As nature also invites introspection, many artists included use nature as a way to deepen into their subjective world. Also, in light of the current climate change crisis as well as cultural and geographical specificity, embracing representations of nature is a way of taking a political stand. As such, this exhibition aims to present a variety of mediums, from works on paper to photography, that are engag
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Michael R. Allen, a lecturer in the American Culture Studies program and senior lecturer in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, is also an academic researcher, historian, design critic, public artist, critical spatial tour guide and heritage conservationist in private practice. He reviews the latest book by Jenny Price, a public writer, artist and environmental historian and current research fellow at the Sam Fox School.
After finishing Jenny Price’s
Stop Saving the Planet: An Environmentalist Manifesto, I felt the urge to look up the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website. I wanted to see how much of the official discourse related to Price’s thesis that we need to replace the “out there” environmentalism which dichotomizes the human and natural realms with an “in here” theory posing environment, society and economy as connected parts of the world in which we live, 24/