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Beverly Buchanan : Marsh ruins / Amelia Groom.

By: Groom, Amelia [author].
Contributor(s): Buchanan, Beverly, 1940- [artist].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: One work: Publisher: London : Afterall Books, 2020Description: 90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1846382181 (paperback); 9781846382185 (paperback).Other title: Marsh ruins.Subject(s): Buchanan, Beverly, 1940- | Concrete sculpture -- Georgia -- Glynn County | Earthworks (Art) -- Georgia -- Glynn CountyDDC classification: 709.2 BUC
Contents:
Roadside attraction -- Torn walls -- Surroundings -- Already claiming the ruins -- The right to opacity -- Still here.
Summary: An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination. Marsh Ruins (1981) is an environmental sculpture by the African American artist Beverly Buchanan. Located in the marshlands in Brunswick, on the coast of Georgia, the work consists of three solid mounds of rock, accompanied by a roughly modelled plaque bearing the artist's signature. Marsh Ruins is designed to blend in with its surroundings, conditioned by environmental forces--to exist in a state of ongoing ruination. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers a detailed, generously illustrated examination of Marsh Ruins.
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An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination.

Beverly Buchanan's Marsh Ruins (1981) are large, solid mounds of cement and shell-based tabby concrete, yet their presence has always been elusive. Hiding in the tall grasses and brackish waters of the Marshes of Glynn, on the southeast coast of Georgia, the Marsh Ruins merge with their surroundings as they enact a curious and delicate tension between destruction and endurance. This volume offers an illustrated examination of Buchanan's environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination.

Includes bibliographical references.

Roadside attraction -- Torn walls -- Surroundings -- Already claiming the ruins -- The right to opacity -- Still here.

An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination. Marsh Ruins (1981) is an environmental sculpture by the African American artist Beverly Buchanan. Located in the marshlands in Brunswick, on the coast of Georgia, the work consists of three solid mounds of rock, accompanied by a roughly modelled plaque bearing the artist's signature. Marsh Ruins is designed to blend in with its surroundings, conditioned by environmental forces--to exist in a state of ongoing ruination. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers a detailed, generously illustrated examination of Marsh Ruins.

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Amelia Groom is an art historian and a postdoctoral Fellow at ICI Berlin Cultural Institute. Her writing on art has been published e-flux journa l, Frieze , Art Agenda, and other publications. She edited Time , a volume in the Documents of Contemporary Art series (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press).