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Desert Landscape Art - "Looking Awry"
Abstract:
<p>Southern California’s high and low deserts offer a blank canvas for nomadic and outlier landscape art: Desert X, Salvation Mountain/Slab City, Bombay Beach Biennale, and High Desert Test Sites. Inspired by J.B. Jackson and other renown landscape geographers, I drafted an article about desert landscape art events for two-dimensional publication with references from 1925 to 2015. Since 2000 there is a noticeable gap in landscape geography publications.</p><p>To adequately represent landscape art, I needed third and fourth dimensions (or a multi-verse) with dynamic links to internet articles, web sites, and internet magazine photo essays. I created a Story Map that augments my drafted article with multi-media for my audience to explore on their own, such as www.DesertX.org . Both the article draft and Story Map represent desert landscape art as sites that are situated in relation to other features, dependent on available land, and adapting to changing situations over time, such as weathering and cultural changes in attitude.</p><p>I address why landscape art installations are where they are, how they persist (or not), and artist connections. Interactive maps enhance the written text, provide a quick tutorial on the Public Land Survey System, identify the study area with four landscape art destinations/events, and three roadside attractions. Imagery is embedded and linked, with the intent of encouraging my audience to experience landscape geography in-person and form their own opinion about thought-provoking and commercial landscape art: https://arcg.is/0CGXC40 .</p>
Keywords: landscape geography, landscape art, story map, Public Land Survey System, Salvation Mountain, Desert X, Bombay Beach Biennale, High Desert Test Sites
Authors:
Cindy Nance, Mt. San Jacinto College; Submitting Author / Primary Presenter
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Desert Landscape Art - "Looking Awry"
Category
In-Person Paper Abstract