{"id":444112464,"title":"Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas","handle":"past-futures-science-fiction-space-travel-and-postwar-art-of-the-americas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sarah J. Montross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast Futures\u003c\/em\u003e showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian \u003cem\u003eHydrospatial City\u003c\/em\u003e envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (born 1924); and\u003cem\u003e Incidents of Mirror-Trave\u003c\/em\u003el in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, also includes an essay by the editor and curator mapping central themes; an exploration of how Latin American artists have depicted astronomic phenomena, utopian projects, and the modern machine; an essay on space-age art in Argentina during the 1960s; and a study of Smithson and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Montross, Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O’Dea, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e | ISBN: 9780262029025 | 136 pp. | 9.5 x 11.5 in\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2015-03-11T11:58:00-04:00","created_at":"2015-03-11T12:00:06-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Art Museum","Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2995,"compare_at_price_min":2995,"compare_at_price_max":2995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":1226340124,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT15-PAST","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":99,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Past Futures exhibition catalogue.","id":15092252761,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sarah J. Montross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast Futures\u003c\/em\u003e showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian \u003cem\u003eHydrospatial City\u003c\/em\u003e envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (born 1924); and\u003cem\u003e Incidents of Mirror-Trave\u003c\/em\u003el in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, also includes an essay by the editor and curator mapping central themes; an exploration of how Latin American artists have depicted astronomic phenomena, utopian projects, and the modern machine; an essay on space-age art in Argentina during the 1960s; and a study of Smithson and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Montross, Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O’Dea, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e | ISBN: 9780262029025 | 136 pp. | 9.5 x 11.5 in\u003c\/p\u003e"}