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2002
| Boettger's narrative is the first comprehensive history of the onset and artistic, social, cultural, economic and demographic contexts of the earliest form of contemporary environmental art, "Earthworks." The forerunner of Land Art -- a distinction Boettger illuminates -- and contrary to critics' illusions, not ecologically environmentalist, the Earthworks movement was conceptualized in the mid-late 1960s by the dynamic, dystopian artist and essayist Robert Smithson. Significant Early cohorts....[more] |
2008
| Boettger's astute visual and psychological analysis of the major Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov's group of drawings, "99 Fears," illustrates how these anxieties can be read as both wry expressions of private phobias and the social constraints of an Eastern Bloc country.
From apprehensions about plane crashes to writer's block, and fear of disease to the size of one's CV, the hilarious smartness of the drawings describe the general free-floating tremors of modern living. The artist's handwritte....[more] |
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