ISBN |
0821222546 (hc) |
Name |
Tucker, Anne author |
Title |
Crimes and splendors : the desert cantos of Richard Misrach / by Anne Wilkes Tucker with Rebecca Solnit. |
Portion of title |
Desert cantos of Richard Misrach |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Published |
Houston, Tex. : The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; Boston : Bulfinch Press, c1996. |
Description |
192 pages. : illustrations. ; 29 x 31 cm. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
A Problem of Beauty / Anne Wilkes Tucker -- Scapeland / Rebecca Solnit -- The Desert Cantos -- Selected Individual and Group Exhibitions -- Selected Publications, Interviews, Broadcasts. |
Summary |
The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Richard Misrach in his breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and named subseries, or cantos, and a prologue. With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man-made flood in California, sublime skies in Arizona, and arts happenings in Nevada, Richard Misrach's images raise probing and compelling questions about contemporary society's relationship to the desert. Included in this beautifully illustrated book are more than sixty Desert Cantos photographs that have never before been published, as well as some of the artist's best-known and most-admired images. |
This monumental publication, the first comprehensive survey of Richard Misrach's epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue for a major midcareer retrospective organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show will tour in the United States (venues include Tucson, Tacoma, and Chicago). |
Exhibitions note |
Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition beginning at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June-Aug. 1996. |
Subjects |
Landscape photography -- Southwest, New -- Exhibitions |
Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions |
Added Names |
Solnit, Rebecca contributing author |
Misrach, Richard, 1949- artist |
Added Corporate Names |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |