Fresh!
Subtitle: contemporary takes on nature & allegory
By: Juli Cho Bailer.
Contributors: Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art.
Series: Context -- 1.; Context (Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art) -- 1.
Publisher: Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art; Distributed by the University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tacoma, WA; Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9780972664929
Subjects: Symbolism in art -- Exhibitions; Nature in art -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "The need to describe the world around us is an impulse as old as the earliest cave-wall depictions of running horses and wounded bison. In this descriptive enterprise we have consistently found nature to be a valuable and inspiring companion, and over the centuries, as we moved beyond simple narrative to the complex, exhortative inventions of allegory, nature has reciprocally grown with us, giving us a crucial and familiar framework to help us to know our place in the universe. As a consequence of this evolution, the human imagination can claim innumerable - often epic - accounts built on the marriage of nature and allegory." "Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory features the works of fifteen artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, encompassing pieces that vary tremendously in medium, technique, and scale - not to mention subject matter. It does not pretend to cover all of the allegorical tendencies in contemporary art, but nevertheless does represent several significant strains in the use of this mode in examining our relationship to nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, Wash. July 1-Dec. 31, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [10]).