Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City

<p>This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris Burden detailing their connections to the cities they had left behind (New York London Los Angeles). Sarah Lowndes also examines how the rise of digital technologies has made it more possible for artists to live and work outside the major art centers especially given the rising cost of living in London Berlin and New York focusing on three peripheral creative centers: the seaside town of Hastings England the midsized metro of Leipzig Germany and post-industrial Detroit USA.</p>