Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

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Mon, 07/14/2014 - 10:15am to 11:00am
The politics of land use and art in an evolving New West, with author and activist Lucy Lippard.
Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America’s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. In her latest book Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, Lippard turns her eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West.

On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Lippard about the wild range of subjects she threads throughout Undermining. Working from her own experience living in a New Mexico village and inspired by the landscape's gravel pits , she weaves a number of fascinating themes—among them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water—into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land.
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