Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal

Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands - are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past - the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues - are coveted,...Read more