Emily Eliza Scott discusses “Spectres of Aridity: Desertification in California and Beyond”. Scott Doctor of Philosophy, Art History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This talk is included in the session titled, ”Desiccated Landscapes”.

Spectres of Aridity: Desertification in California and Beyond

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

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Spectres of Aridity: Desertification in California and Beyond

Spectres of Aridity: Desertification in California and Beyond