Bøker av William L. Fox

Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.

In the eight essays collected here, William L. Fox considers the American West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Combining natural history, philosophy and art criticism, he meditates on our aversion to and fascination with the void.