Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime Hardcover – Available for Pre-Order

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The Hardcover edition of Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, is available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Publication date is May 31, 2018. The book is edited by Joel Sternfeld and In Landscapes after Ruskin a joyful experience of nature is now mixed with a certain terror as the earth and its atmosphere are increasingly touched by human activity. Essays by Lynn Gumpert, Director of Grey Art Gallery; Dale Jamison, NYU Professor of E nvironmental Studies and Philosophy; Joel Sternfeld, renowned and influential artist; Chris Wiley, acclaimed contemporary art writer; explore contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, and video through the lens of influential English art critic and so cial thinker John Ruskin (1819 – 1900), who argued that the artist’s principal responsibility is “truth to nature.”

Simon Aldridge

Born in London in 1974, Simon Aldridge is an artist, architect, and designer. After earning a BSc degree from London’s Bartlett School, he won a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard where he studied art and architecture. It was at Harvard’s Carpenter Center, designed and established by Le Corbusier, that he was taught to think of art and design together. His inter-disciplinary practice today merges these theories with contemporary post-conceptual culture.

http://www.simonaldridge.com
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