Karen Rapp holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University and is currently a lecturer in art history at Santa Clara University. The submitted paper is drawn from her dissertation, “Not the Romantic West: Site-Specific Art, Globalization, and Contemporary Landscapes” which addresses a renewed interest in land among contemporary artists Andrea Zittel, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Coolidge, and Francis Alÿs.
This paper considers the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI’s) place-based work as a meditation on the problem of site-specificity in an era of global inter-connectedness. Whereas recent accounts of site-spec[...]
October 29, 2012
