Domesticating the invisible : form and environmental anxiety in postwar America /

Domesticating the invisible : form and environmental anxiety in postwar America /

"This book examines how postwar notions of form developed in response to newly perceived environmental threats, which inspired artists to model plastic composition on natural systems often invisible to the human eye. Melissa S. Ragain focuses on the history of art education in Cambridge, Massac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ragain, Melissa, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harvard University.
1900-1999
Art > Study and teaching (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Human ecology in art.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Artists and architects > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Art, American > Massachusetts > Cambridge > 20th century.
ART / General.
Art, American.
Art > Study and teaching (Higher)
Artists and architects.
Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : domesticating the invisible
  • Visual field theory : nature and composition in twentieth-century Boston
  • Reality's invisible : visual and environmental studies at Harvard
  • The Art of the environment : center for advanced visual studies, MIT
  • Eco-art and Rudolf Arnheim's cellular metaphor
  • Jack Burnham and "The disposable transient environment".