African Studies: Edward Burtynsky design book following studies with Philip Guston

following studies with Philip Guston and Robert Reed

immersive abstractions characterized by a bold

fall and winter

Archibald Motley

African Studies: Edward Burtynsky design book following studies with Philip GustonIn Edward Burtynskys recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a