中文简介：

获奖作家劳伦斯·韦斯勒（Lawrence Weschler）在这本书中详细描述了大卫·奥普戴克（David Opdyke）的大型拼贴画《这片土地》，对气候变化和美国梦进行了讽刺。

《这片土地》是美国艺术家大卫·奥普戴克用经过处理的美国复古明信片拼贴而成的大型作品。这幅作品乍一看像是由彩色瓷砖组成的网格，仔细看才发现它是由20世纪初的老式明信片组成的，描绘了一个高山峡谷的全景鸟瞰图。它由500多张明信片组成，每张明信片都描绘了理想化美国的一个独特片段（城镇广场、山区公路、刚完工的水坝、主要街道和县城、湖泊和河流）——显然，奥普戴克将他自己的绘画作品分层缩小了。在这种重塑中，森林被烧毁，龙卷风从一张卡片肆虐到另一张卡片，一艘在密西西比河上航行的汽船被某种入侵的新物种整个吞没，青蛙从天而降。人类的反应看起来像是崇拜与反对、恐慌与否认的杂音。双翼飞机拖着横幅敦促“现在就忏悔！”另一些则坚持“立法行动为时过早”，还有一些乞求着“建造海堤！”本书让读者有机会近距离观察奥普戴克详述的有趣而令人不安的讽刺细节，在劳伦斯·韦斯勒生动的艺术家简介、批判性解释和幽默即兴重复的风格下，这本书变得生动起来。这是一份内容丰富的记录，深入探索了这一错综复杂的艺术作品，然而它的相关性和影响力只会越来越大。

英文简介：

David Opdyke's massive collage This Land as detailed in this book by award-winning author Lawrence Weschler presents a trenchant satire of climate change and the American Dream.

This Land is a large-scale (16 x 10') collage of treated vintage American postcards by American artist David Opdyke. What at first looks like a gridwork of colorful tiles portraying a panoramic bird's eye view of an alpine valley reveal upon closer inspection that it is composed of vintage postcards from the early twentieth century. Comprising more than 500 postcards, each one portraying a distinct slice of idealized Americana (town squares, mountain highways, recently completed dams, main streets and county seats, lakes and rivers)--it becomes clear that Opdyke has layered diminutively painted interventions of his own. In this refashioning, forests are aflame, tornados ravage scenes from one card into the next, a steamboat lolling up the Mississippi is swallowed up whole by some sort of invasive new species, frogs fall from the sky. The human response looks like a cacophony of cults and cons, panic and denial. Biplanes trail banners urging "Repent Now!," others insist "Legislative Action Would Be Premature," while still others beg, "Build the Sea Wall!" The book This Land allows readers a close viewing that allows them to focus on the amusing and disturbing satirical details that Opdyke details, enlivened by Lawrence Weschler's lively style of artist profile, critical interpretation, and humorous riffing. A deep exploration of this intricate artwork, This Land is a rich document whose relevance and reach will unfortunately only grow.