Hamish Fulton: Tate Britain. (London).Hamish ''Not to be confused with amish, a Christian denomination Hamish is an archetypal male Scottish name. The name is uncommon outside of Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.. Its English equivalent is James, which is a variant of the Hebrew name Jacob. Fulton's version of what in America is called Land Art or Earthworks earthworks: see land art. seems peculiarly British: He takes long walks. His impulse impulse, in mechanics: see momentum. Impulse (mechanics) The integral of a force over an interval of time. For a force F , the impulse J over the interval from t0 to t1 reflects partly the anticommodity politics of the '60s--"An artwork may be purchased," Fulton has written, "but a walk cannot be sold"-- and partly a conceptual approach to the landscape genre and more broadly to the art object itself. At the same time, he is surely mixed up with a stubborn stubborn Vox populi → medtalk Refractory; unresponsive to therapy English attitude to nature--that whole knapsacking, compass-consulting, Wordsworth-in-Cumberland deal. Fulton's work is the walks themselves; what he exhibits are photo and text pieces that stand in for them. This show concentrates on his art of the last ten years, along with a selection of earlier pieces. Mar. 14-June 2. |
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