Beschreibung:
Sarah Lowndes is a writer and curator who lectures at Glasgow School of Art and other institutions
This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads.
Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I; Introduction ; 1 The Back to the Land Movement: from the 1840s to the 1970s; PART II; The Creative Homesteads of Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman and Chris Burden; 2 We are Born as Nouns Not Verbs: Agnes Martin and the New Mexico Desert (1968-2004); 3 Vaster than Empires and More Slow: Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent (1987-1994; 4 In a Free Spot: Chris Burden and Topanga Canyon, California (1984-2015); PART III; The Rise of the Town-Country: Contemporary Creative Homesteaders; 5 The Lure of the Midsize Metro: Leipzig; 6 Neither City nor Country: Hastings; 7 In the ruins, a garden: Detroit; Conclusion; Index