Weintraub, Linda.
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012];©2012
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Part of the series Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint;Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint.
Notes:
- This text is the first international survey of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth’s diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today’s cultural, scientific, economic, spiritual, and ethical frontiers.–Publisher description.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Art genres — Art strategies — Eco issues — Eco approaches — Art: artistic infrastructure. Introduction — Eco art is — Eco art is not — Eco: ecological operatives. Introduction — Eco art themes — Eco art aesthetics — Eco art materials — Twentieth-century eco art pioneers. Ant Farm (USA) : conspicuous consumption — Herbert Bayer (Austria) : watershed management and beautification — Joseph Beuys (Germany) : energy generation as social sculpture — Hans Haacke (Germany) : ecological/political/cultural systems — Helen and Newton Harrison (USA) : strategies to sustain life — Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria) : built environments as living systems — Allan Kaprow (USA) : performing a river — Frans Krajcberg (Poland) : integral naturalism — Mario Merz (Italy) : template of life and dynamism — Carolee Schneemann (USA) : primal immersions — Bonnie Ora Sherk (USA) : urban oasis — Alan Sonfist (USA) : preservation of living systems — Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA) : honoring maintenance — Twenty-first-century eco art explorers. Brandon Ballengée (USA) : species reclamation — The Beehive Design Collective (USA) : the true cost of coal — Mel Chin (USA) : soil remediation — Chu Yun (China) : planned obsolescence — Critical Art Ensemble (USA) : contestational biology — Fernando García-Dory (Spain) : neo-pastoralism — Bright Ugochukwu Eke (Nigeria) : acid rain check — Nicole Fournier (Canada) : poly agriculture — Amy Franceschini (USA) : do-it-yourself energy generation — Gelitin (Austria) : one with nature — Andy Goldsworthy (UK) : anthropocentric/ecocentric beauty — Andy Gracie (UK) : bioelectronics — Tue Greenfort (Denmark) : salvation through conservation — Terike Haapoja (Finland) : cross-species affinity — HeHe (UK and Germany) : air pollutants — Natalie Jeremijenko (Australia) : citizen ecologists — Yun-Fei Ji (China) : failings of an engineering triumph — Eduardo Kac (Brazil) : painting with life — Jae Rhim Lee (South Korea) : cultivating the human body — Maya Lin (U
Subjects:
- Environment (Art)
- Ecology in art.
- Environmental protection in art.
- Artists — United States.
- Art, American — 20th century.
- Art, American — 21st century.
- Art, Modern — 20th century.
- Art, Modern — 21st century.
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