Back to the Marshes: Myth, Method, Matter
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Author: Barbara Baert
'Back to the Marshes: Myth, Method, Matter' is the final volume in Barbara Baert’s tripartite study on the cultural impact of weather and environment, on the artistic symptoms of fertility and anxiety, and on the study of matter and medium. In this essay Baert explores the cosmological imagination, prehistoric graphemes, and the sensory experiences of marshes and wetlands, including their artistic significance for raw and biological materials such as clay, mud and fungi.'Back to the Marshes' develops into a fluid voyage of discovery that charts the role of material topologies and their artistic properties in human hands, and reflects on the obstacles accompanying the writing process and the epistemological crises it precipitated during the author’s residency at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. It leads Baert to reconsider the contemporary challenges of Bildwissenschaft in the Geological Turn.Baert's series includes 'About Sieves and Sieving' (2019), 'Looking into the Rain' (2022), and 'Back to the Marshes (2026).
ISBN 9783689240851. De Gruyter. pb. 150 pages. 67 colour & b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm.
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'Back to the Marshes: Myth, Method, Matter' is the final volume in Barbara Baert’s tripartite study on the cultural impact of weather and environment, on the artistic symptoms of fertility and anxiety, and on the study of matter and medium. In this essay Baert explores the cosmological imagination, prehistoric graphemes, and the sensory experiences of marshes and wetlands, including their artistic significance for raw and biological materials such as clay, mud and fungi.'Back to the Marshes' develops into a fluid voyage of discovery that charts the role of material topologies and their artistic properties in human hands, and reflects on the obstacles accompanying the writing process and the epistemological crises it precipitated during the author’s residency at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. It leads Baert to reconsider the contemporary challenges of Bildwissenschaft in the Geological Turn.Baert's series includes 'About Sieves and Sieving' (2019), 'Looking into the Rain' (2022), and 'Back to the Marshes (2026).
ISBN 9783689240851. De Gruyter. pb. 150 pages. 67 colour & b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm.
not yet published