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With its distinctive typography, photography and narrative, Lothar Baumgarten's book Carbon chronicles his journey through the United States in the late 1980s tracing and retracing the railroad system that built much of the West while, at the same time, displacing the Native American population. Carbon acts in an important way as an elegy to those displaced in evocative citations of Native American names, and uses the railroad system as the organizing visual and intellectual idea to investigate intertwined notions of landscape, language, memory, and history. A record of an age of undeniable industrial accomplishment filtered through with an underlying sense of loss, Carbon can also be seen as a spur to recognize the effects of time on even the most ambitious of plans whose effects are still being felt today, though not (as history has often shown can happen) those originally intended.
Adapted from
Charles Wylie, Unpublished DMA material, 2004.
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Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, DMA 2004-2005 (added to exhibitions module in TMS, HAB, 1/16/2018)
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Until 2004: Lothar Baumgarten (b. 1944)
2004: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased through Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The main source for this provenance is the copy of the invoice dated May 6, 2004, in the Collections Records object file (2004.37.A-B).
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General Description
With its distinctive typography, photography and narrative, Lothar Baumgarten's book Carbon chronicles his journey through the United States in the late 1980s tracing and retracing the railroad system that built much of the West while, at the same time, displacing the Native American population. Carbon acts in an important way as an elegy to those displaced in evocative citations of Native American names, and uses the railroad system as the organizing visual and intellectual idea to investigate intertwined notions of landscape, language, memory, and history. A record of an age of undeniable industrial accomplishment filtered through with an underlying sense of loss, Carbon can also be seen as a spur to recognize the effects of time on even the most ambitious of plans whose effects are still being felt today, though not (as history has often shown can happen) those originally intended.
Adapted from
Charles Wylie, Unpublished DMA material, 2004.
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Notes
Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, DMA 2004-2005 (added to exhibitions module in TMS, HAB, 1/16/2018)
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 2004: Lothar Baumgarten (b. 1944)
2004: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased through Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The main source for this provenance is the copy of the invoice dated May 6, 2004, in the Collections Records object file (2004.37.A-B).
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