Art and Ecology Now

2014-05-20 Art

Author : Andrew Brown
Release : 2014-05-20
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 169/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Art and Ecology Now written by Andrew Brown. This book was released on 2014-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first survey of its kind to explore contemporary art that focuses on ecology From land art and earthworks in the 1960s to conceptual art of the new millennium, ecology-focused art has been a prominent genre in the art world for decades. This book offers a look into the recent explosion in contemporary art that deals directly with nature, the environment, climate change, and ecology. Organized into six thematic chapters, Art & Ecology Now moves through the various levels of artists’ engagement, from those who document and reflect on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. More than 300 color illustrations feature the work of over 90 artists, including Allora & Calzadilla, Edward Burtynsky, Tue Greenfort, Hans Haacke, Eva Jospin, Nadav Kander, Yao Lu, David Maisel, Gustav Metzger, Svetlana Ostapovici, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Berndnaut Smilde, and more.

The Green Bloc

2015-04-10 Art

Author : Maja Fowkes
Release : 2015-04-10
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Green Bloc written by Maja Fowkes. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the horizon of established accounts of Central European art under socialism, this book uncovers the neglected history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc. The turbulent legacy of 1968, which saw the confluence of political upheaval, spread of counterculture, rise of ecological consciousness, and emergence of global conceptual art, provides the setting for Maja Fowkes’s innovative reassessment of the environmental practice of the Central European neo-avant-garde. Focussing on artists and artist groups whose ecological dimension has rarely been considered, including the Pécs Workshop from Hungary, OHO in Slovenia, TOK in Croatia, Rudolf Sikora in Slovakia, and the Czech artist Petr Štembera, 'The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism' brings to light an array of distinctive approaches to nature, from attempts to raise environmental awareness among socialist citizens to the exploration of non-anthropocentric positions and the quest for cosmological existence in the midst of red ideology. Embedding artistic production in social, political, and environmental histories of the region, this book reveals the Central European artists’ sophisticated relationship to nature, at the precise moment when ecological crisis was first apprehended on a planetary scale.

Performing Nature

2005 Architecture

Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Release : 2005
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 571/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Performing Nature written by Gabriella Giannachi. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as 'cultural', by others as an 'independent domain', or even as a powerful process of exchange 'between the human and the other-than-human'. The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, 'Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity', look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography either reinforce or contest our ideas about nature and human-human or human-animal relations and identities. The second part, 'World: Hermeneutic Language and Social Ecology', investigates political protest, social practice art, acoustic ecology, dance theatre, family therapy and ritual in terms of social philosophy. Contributors to the third part, 'Environment: Immersiveness and Interactivity', explore architecture and sculpture, site-specific and mediatised dance and paratheatre through radical theories of urban and virtual space and time, or else phenomenological philosophy. The final part, 'Void: Death, Life and the Sublime', indicates the possibilities in dance, architecture and animal behaviour of a shift to an existential ontology in which nature has 'the capacity to perform itself'.

To Life!

2012-09-01 Art

Author : Linda Weintraub
Release : 2012-09-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book To Life! written by Linda Weintraub. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

The Art of Ecology

2010 Ecology

Author : George Evelyn Hutchinson
Release : 2010
Genre : Ecology
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Book Rating : 498/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Art of Ecology written by George Evelyn Hutchinson. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable overview of the writings and history of one of the twentieth century's finest minds."---Val Smith, University of Kansas --

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