{"id":6258,"date":"2014-09-17T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2014-09-17T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:14:46","slug":"book-power-redux-artist-talk-exploring-landscape-nature-and-the-power-of-prints-and-artists-book-with-artist-nicole-pietrantoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/book-power-redux-artist-talk-exploring-landscape-nature-and-the-power-of-prints-and-artists-book-with-artist-nicole-pietrantoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Power Redux Artist Talk:  Exploring Landscape, Nature and the Power of Prints and Artists\u2019 Book with artist Nicole Pietrantoni."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/09\/BookPowerTalk_Sept17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6260\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/09\/BookPowerTalk_Sept17.jpg\" alt=\"BookPowerTalk_Sept17\" width=\"248\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/09\/BookPowerTalk_Sept17.jpg 294w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/09\/BookPowerTalk_Sept17-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday, September 17, 2014<br \/>\n7\u20138 p.m.<em><br \/>\n<\/em>Collins Library Room 020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Pietrantoni<\/strong>\u00a0is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla\u00a0Walla, Washington, where she teaches printmaking and book arts.\u00a0 Her piece, <em>Precipitous,<\/em>\u00a0is one of the works featured in the exhibit Book Power Redux at Collins Library.\u00a0 It\u00a0is collection of five hand bound accordion books that expand to create a life-sized panoramic image of a rising sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs books, the works gesture to the authority of the encyclopedic and the cataloging of natural specimens. As an installation, they dismantle sublime images through cuts, folds and halftone dots. The overlaid poems by Devon Wootten are appropriations from a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change titled, \u201cClimate Change and Water.\u201d With a specific interest in printmaking\u2019s historic relationship to representation, in this work I gesture to humans\u2019 role in constructing and idealizing landscape. Referencing 19th-century panoramas as well as Romantic painting, the work nods to a particularly fraught period in our relationship to nature. Similarly, today\u2019s changing landscape demands an examination of the tension between the enjoyment of beautiful, idealized landscapes and an awareness of their ecological complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This event was made possible through the\u00a0support of the Catharine Gould Chism Fund, University of Puget Sound.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7\u20138 p.m. Collins Library Room 020 Nicole Pietrantoni\u00a0is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla\u00a0Walla, Washington, where she teaches printmaking and book arts.\u00a0 Her piece, Precipitous,\u00a0is one of the works featured in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/book-power-redux-artist-talk-exploring-landscape-nature-and-the-power-of-prints-and-artists-book-with-artist-nicole-pietrantoni\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}