{"id":230,"date":"2015-07-01T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2015-08-31T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:29:07","slug":"pioneer-cemetery-near-empire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/?page_id=230","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Cemetery, Near Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adams is a member of the New Topographics.\u00a0His\u00a0photos may initially suggest development overpowering its surroundings, or at least a disharmonious relationship, but that is not the whole story. This photograph of a cemetery, with the Rockies looming over it, comes from his book <i>The New West<\/i>. In its introduction, he writes, \u201call land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.\u201d\u00b9 Given his preoccupation with the industrial and (sub)urban, its subject may not seem representative of his concerns. Taken in context, however, it points to a keen awareness of a landscape in flux that is irreducible to mere fatalism: through all the change, death and the mountains are immutable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>-Ethan Spielman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 Robert Adams, <i>The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range <\/i>(New York: Aperture, 1974), p.xiv.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/\">\u2039 Return to Exhibition<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/robert-adams\" target=\"_blank\">Learn More About Robert Adams \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adams is a member of the New Topographics.\u00a0His\u00a0photos may initially suggest development overpowering its surroundings, or at least a disharmonious relationship, but that is not the whole story. This photograph of a cemetery, with the Rockies looming over it, comes from his book The New West. In its introduction, he writes, \u201call land, no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":127,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/constructed-landscape\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}