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Rurality re-imagined : villagers, farmers, wanderers, wild things

Title

Rurality re-imagined : villagers, farmers, wanderers, wild things / Ben Stringer (editor).

Publication

[Novato, California] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2018]
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Description

ix, 275 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 26 cm

Summary

"Rurality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things with each comprised of five or six diverse chapters. In the section on Villagers, rural communities are considered as assemblages and spaces of vernacularity, as dark settings for TV dramas, new wave photography, and as sites for community arts projects. The Farmer's section critically re-invigorates the historical fascination with peasantry and farming in the arts through essays, painting, and photography that collectively place the agency of the artist under as much scrutiny as images of agricultural space and people. Stereotypically, the word 'Wanderers' conjures images of gypsy caravans, or country ramblers, but Rurality Re-imagined stretches the label to include not only the traditional migrations of reindeer herds, but also that of the motorway driver, and migrations of cultural forms as well, such as the hip hop clubs of New York to the fields of rural Devon. In the essays and images about Wild Things, wilderness emerges as a highly contested cultural terrain far from any state of purity as it manifests itself in the behaviour of people, flora, and fauna in cultivated and uncultivated landscapes and parks."--

Subject

Genre/Form

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Department of Architecture, University of Westminster, London in 2015.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction. Never mind the countryside / Ben Stringer -- Villagers. Re-imagining the global village / Michael Woods ; Balance of the island / Julie Crawshaw ; Performing the village : the performance of tradition in the photography of Anna Fox / Rosemary Shirley/Anna Fox ; Re-imagining vernacularity / Marcel Vellinga ; Frescoed comics / Sara Serrão ; Villages gone wild : death by rural idyll in The casual vacancy and Glue / Esther Peeren -- Farmers. Re-imagining peasant painting / Sigrid Holmwood ; After Baruchello : agricultural encounters in contemporary art / Wood Roberdeau ; Kosova haystacks : an interview with Lala Meredith-Vula / Ben Stringer/Lala Meredith-Vula ; Toward a museum of contemporary farming / Kate Genever ; Going underground : SPUD - a potato practice comics / Deirdre O'Mahony ; Salted earth : salt-making as a poetics of mobility and place / Katy Beinart -- Wanderers. When the migratory route is home / Kjerstin Uhre ; Race, nationalism, and landscape belonging : Stonehenge on the summer solstice / Ben Pitcher ; Tunnelling between landscape and artefact : an itinerary of points and vectors / Rupert Griffiths & Lia Wei ; Soft tension : reimagining urbanism and rurality through the spatio-cultural practices of hip-hop / Adam de Poor-Evans -- Heathrow : wilderness and walking / Kate Corder ; Memories of a journey at night / Jonathan Mosley & Sophie Warren -- Wild things. Re-wilding the ruins : landscaping post-industrial sites in the Ruhr / Malcolm Miles ; Leylandii : dismantling suburban boundaries / Jane McAllister ; Wild nights : cruising and landscape management on West Heath / Jessica J. Lee ; Balsam bashing / Christine Mackey ; Architecture of the rural gaze / John Brennan ; Unscoping animals / Rosemarie McGoldrick.

ISBN

9781940743349
1940743346

OCLC

on1010655161
1010655161
SCSB-9153097

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library