Still from the video Flat Black
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Title
Still from the video Flat Black
Description
Elaine Beck earned her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2004. Her 2001 artwork, the Chair Project, an interactive, collaborative community project in Oskaloosa, Iowa, was featured nationally in the media, and she was awarded Best of Competition in the 2003 Des Moines Art Center Film+Video+DVD Competition. Elaine is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD program that combines her research interests: art, democracy, and community.
Elaine Beck grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. Flat Black documents the experience of her father and other individual farmers who were affected by the farm crisis of the 1980s. Beck's father organized a group of farmers in an effort to help each other survive. Her interviews with these men explore what they perceive as the causes of the crisis and effects of the it had on their families, their communities, and the men themselves. The documentary features hauntingly beautiful images of the Iowa farmscape and the rich soil for which the film is named.
Creator
Beck, Elaine
Publisher
University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History
Date
2004
2004-10-27
Rights
Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.
Relation
The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=113
http://www.elainebeck.com/
Format
still from the video
Type
Still image
Video art
Identifier
10272004.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/