James Nisbet is associate professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s and the coeditor of The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment. He lives in Irvine, California.
"""Honorable Mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada"" ""A brisk, contemplative, and often brilliant study. . . . Second Site is an example of how issues of climate change, global politics, and social justice currently inform and redirect the ways in which we understand the history of site-specificity and land art. ""---Enrique Ramirez, Landscape Architecture Magazine ""[Nisbet’s] achievement in Second Site is the way in which he places a number of site-specific works of varying renown into conversation, recontextualizing each through the lens of its secondary effects and impacts, and layering this onto urgent concerns around conservation — both curatorially and ecologically.""---Emily Cadotte, Esse Magazine ""[Second Site] is a welcome addition to a body of literature on site-specificity, or the idea that a particular space or place is integral to the meaning of an artwork, where activities, events, or objects turn a location into a unique site. . . . Concise and thought-provoking.""---Brianne Cohen, caa.reviews"