What Poetry does best: the Harrisons' Poetics of Being and Acting in the World.
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
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- Fremantle_1
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- The time of the force majeure: after 45 years counterforce is on the horizon
- Publisher
- Gaia Project Press
- ISBN
- 9783791355498
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- This chapter explores key aspects of the aesthetics of pioneers of art and ecology, Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b.1932), known as ‘the Harrisons’. The book is an overview of their work from 1969/70 to the present. This chapter is significant in exploring key aspects of the Harrisons’ poetics, ‘the way the works work’, in particular as a contribution to public life. The authors focus on four key connected aspects: the creation of ‘space’ in the work; the approach to language; the understanding of improvisation; and the way that the work is an invitation to action in the world.
Fremantle and Douglas have researched and worked with the Harrisons as a key example of artists who reflect on their own practices. The Harrisons also formed a key example in The Artist as Leader research. The chapter opens up a new articulation of the complexity of agency within the work, recognizing that there are human and more-than-human participants in discourses of place. It highlights the Harrisons combination of image and text, use of multiple voices and key questions in relation to peers and colleagues working with ethnopoetics and scores in particular.
Other authors contributing chapters include Dr Roger F Malina, physicist, astronomer and executive editor of the Leonardo publications at MIT Press, dual appointments of Professor of Arts and Technology and a Professor of Physics at UT Dallas; William L Fox, Director of the Center for Art and Environment at Nevada Museum of Art; and Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor for Art in America
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