Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Cantor Exhibit Captures the Sublime Beauty of Man-Made Scars
Cantor Exhibit Captures the Sublime Beauty of Man-Made Scars
Gideon Mendel, Anchalee Koyama, Taweewattana District, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2011 from the series Drowning World: Submerged Portraits, 2011. Laser print on fabric, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Axis Gallery, New York & New Jersey. © Gideon Mendel
In the more than two decades since its invention by scientists, the term Anthropocene — used to define our current age in which human activity is a dominating force — has become so sticky, it’s been applied to all manner of disciplines, everything from philosophy to literature, economics to aesthetics.