Description
Working from her own lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits within the landscape, Lippard weaves various fascinating themesamong them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and waterinto a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the “subterranean economy.”
Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining is a should-read for somebody eager to explore a new way of figuring out the relationship between art and place in a abruptly shifting society.