Islands and Contemporary Art

Gill Perry

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Reaktion Books
01 September 2024

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

In this groundbreaking exploration, Gill Perry looks at the vital role that islands play in contemporary visual arts. Responding to the urgency of migration, climate change, and colonialism, artists create compelling and provocative works that resonate across colonized archipelagos.

Perry navigates the British Isles, Ireland, the Caribbean, Pacific Oceania, and the Galpagos and illuminates the role of islands in installation, multimedia, and film projects by renowned artists such as Robert Smithson, Lisa Reihana, Roni Horn, Rodney Graham, Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, and others from the 1970s to today.

'In this exemplary and curious interweaving of themes, environments, communities and artworks, Gill Perry mobilizes an ecologically aware, feminist and postcolonial intelligence in the exploration of a conceptual archipelago of allegory, myth and creative place making. This generously illustrated book explores gender, ecology, politics and aesthetics, entangled with the facts and fantasies of island stories. It provides an insightful understanding of how artists work to stimulate spectacular and elemental intimations of these elusive themes.'

Barry Curtis, Istituto Marangoni and Central St Martins, London

By: Gill Perry
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 171mm,
ISBN: 9781789149364
ISBN 10: 1789149363
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gill Perry is professor of art history at the Open University and is the author numerous books.

Reviews for Islands and Contemporary Art

"""Perry has produced something remarkable for anyone interested in contemporary art and culture. Islands and Contemporary Art is a totally captivating and accessible survey of works and ideas illuminating our relationship to islands, both real and imaginary. It addresses important issues about how we value art, literature and film in a way that will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the forces - ecological, cultural and political - shaping our world.""--Michael Corris, Southern Methodist University"