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Article: The human land dialectic: anthropic landscapes of the center for Land Use Interpretation.
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- Afterimage
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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[F]or the Land itself knows nothing, except that which we impress upon it.
- Damon Farragut(1)
While gaining public attention through recent exhibitions of "anthropic" or human-made landscapes, the Center fur Land Use interpretation (CLUI) has also provoked curiosity with its unorthodox institutional practices.(2) Like other recipients of the increasingly rare National Endowment for the Arts grants, the CLUI characterizes itself as a cultural organization. However, unlike other art institutions, the CLUI's medium appears to be the human-induced landscape, specifically "terrain that has been changed by the hands of industry, art, commerce or defense."(3) ...