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What is The Altered Landscape about?

Over the past decade, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno has been assembling a collection of works depicting a broad range of landscapes known as The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection. This book serves as an introduction to The Altered Landscape Collection. But even more, it introduces readers to the specific aesthetic objectives of the artists creating the photographs and to the larger issues of humankind's attitudes toward and uses of the land. <p>A prefatory essay by editor Peter E. Pool outlines the evolution of The Altered Landscape Collection and the aesthetic and historical motivations for its creation. Essays by three renowned scholars explore the themes of the Collection from the perspectives of their various disciplines. Historian Patricia Nelson Limerick discusses the wide-ranging historical and cultural implications of the "alteration" of the landscape of the American West. Art critic Dave Hickey examines photographic art in the context of the Western design of nature, considering the cultural and intellectual concepts of "landscape" and the ways that photographers through the history of this medium have been influenced by those concepts. And art historia

Author

Peter E. Pool; essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall

Publisher

Reno ; Las Vegas: Nevada Museum of Art in association with University of Nevada Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874173307

Subjects

Photography, Nature, Arts

Rating

4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14