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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape

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Landscape art is a rather new interest for me so I found the text quite helpful with its range of contemporary expressions of the genre. The text adequately suggests the history of genre and its American lineage and how it turned from the sublime nature and American manifest destiny towards a critique of that ideology and often a rather explicit concern for ecology for many artists. Artists range from the well known (Adams & Ruscha) to many I had not yet heard of. I appreciated the diversity of artists, work, and methods, as well as the very short interviews with the artists themselves prior to the images of their work. I was initially excited about the 4 short essays, but found myself a little disappointed in their scope. Overall I think this is a great text and certainly worth adding to a collection.