Amanda Boetzkes
Professor
College of Arts
School of Fine Art and Music
Guelph, Ontario
aboetzke@uoguelph.ca
Office:
(519) 824-4120 ext. 56741
Expert In
Art historiography
Art of American counterculture
Artistic practices of 20th and 21st centuries
Biological sciences of 20th and 21st centuries
Concept of value
Contemporary art
Currency
Development of earth art movement
Economic exchange
Ethics of earth art
Garbage in contemporary art
Global capitalism
Landscape art and aesthetics
Political status of animal species
Theory and criticism
Bio/Research
Dr. Boetzkes specializes in contemporary art, theory and criticism, with an emphasis on the intersection of the biological sciences and artistic practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Her first book, "The Ethics of Earth Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), consider...
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Her first book, "The Ethics of Earth Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), consider...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Boetzkes specializes in contemporary art, theory and criticism, with an emphasis on the intersection of the biological sciences and artistic practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Her first book, "The Ethics of Earth Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), considers the development of the earth art movement, focusing on how ecology transitioned from scientific discourse to a domain of ethical and aesthetic concern. She is currently writing a book titled "Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste", which analyzes the use and representation of garbage in contemporary art, and more subtly, how waste as such is defined, narrativized and aestheticized in the age of global capitalism.
Other areas of research and publication include: currency, economic exchange and the concept of value; theories of consciousness and perception, specifically ecological perception and neuroplasticity; art and visual culture that problematizes the ontological and political status of animal species; phenomenology and art historiography; the art of the American counterculture; landscape art and aesthetics from the 18th century to the present.
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Her first book, "The Ethics of Earth Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), considers the development of the earth art movement, focusing on how ecology transitioned from scientific discourse to a domain of ethical and aesthetic concern. She is currently writing a book titled "Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste", which analyzes the use and representation of garbage in contemporary art, and more subtly, how waste as such is defined, narrativized and aestheticized in the age of global capitalism.
Other areas of research and publication include: currency, economic exchange and the concept of value; theories of consciousness and perception, specifically ecological perception and neuroplasticity; art and visual culture that problematizes the ontological and political status of animal species; phenomenology and art historiography; the art of the American counterculture; landscape art and aesthetics from the 18th century to the present.
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