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James Nisbet, "Total Environments"

The UCI Department of Art History presents
Total Environments
James Nisbet
Cornell University

During the rise of the American Environment Movement in the 1960s, a new form
of art appeared that was termed, quite simply and provocatively, an “Environment.”
Adopting the ambitions of a total work of art, these multimedia installations
appeared primarily in two forms, some expanding the domain of sculpture into the
complete envelope of a gallery space and others employing light and sound as a
form of psychedelia to saturate the senses. In all, the short life of this genre allows
one to consider more carefully the relationships among space, totality, and
environments during this seminal historical period for both ecological social policy
and artistic practice.

Free and open to the public.
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