READING THE RIVER

The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland

2017

Book Details

Editors: Museum De Domijnen, Basia Irland

Contributors: Amanda Boetzkes, Kirsten Pai Buick, Mark B. Feldman, Basia Irland, Carri J. LeRoy, Lucy R. Lippard, Kathleen Dean Moore, Museum De Domijnen, Tom de Rooij, Miriam Sagan, Christopher Shultis

Publisher: Museum De Domijnen

ISBN: 9789075883558

Format: softcover

Pages: 230

Illustrations: color

Dimensions: 10" x 8.5" (25.5cm x 21.5cm)

Reading the River documents the water-related art projects of Basia Irland and picks up where Water Library left off in 2007. The book was produced in conjunction with a 2015-2016 retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands and includes an extended interview with the exhibition curator, Roel Arkensteijn, which focuses on the early years of Irland’s career.

Bound Volumes 2. c. 1983.

Río Grande. 2015. Photo by Margot Geist.

Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) Seed Circle Book Two. River Maas, Limburg, the Netherlands, 2015. Photo by Derek Irland.

Ice Book being launched into Río Grande during filming of New Mexico PBS ¡Colores! television program, 2014. Photo by Tara Walch.

Reading the River is available to order through the following online booksellers:

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Museum installation with Contemplation Station I. Limburg, the Netherlands, 2015.

Photo by Bert Janssen.