The new earthwork : art, action, agency / edited by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper.
Contributor(s): Moyer, Twylene
| Harper, Glenn.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Perspectives on contemporary sculpture ; v. 4.Publisher: Hamilton, NJ : Seattle, WA : ISC Press ; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: 316 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780295991641 (pbk.); 029599164X (pbk.).Other title: Art, action, agency.Uniform titles: Sculpture magazine. Subject(s): Ecology in art | Art and social actionDDC classification: 709.04076
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.04076 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 23/02/2024 | 00195935 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For more than 40 years, sculptors have been at the forefront of environmental and ecological/social innovation, making works that treat the earth as creative partner rather than resource and raw material. The new earthwork, which is currently at the leading edge of sculptural practice, means art for the future of humanity and the planet; it means a new approach to aesthetics and the role of art in our lives; it means a sustainable and vital artistic practice that not only solves problems but dares to ask questions and seek answers across disciplinary boundaries. Working in the land to solve agricultural, habitat, and water problems; using new materials and technologies; employing, and sometimes generating, alternative energy sources; taking action and educating about recycling, frontier biology, and genetic engineering, these artists demonstrate how art can open people's eyes, drive change, and envision more than one possible future.
A collection of essays on individual artists drawn from Sculpture magazine.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 8)
- Introduction: Down and Dirty by Lucy R. Lippard (p. 11)
- Richard Long's Line: Dissolving Aesthetics into Ethics (p. 14)
- Forms Behaving in Time: A Conversation with David Nash (p. 18)
- Alfio Bonanno: One With Nature (p. 22)
- Ice in the Whirlwind: Chris Drury's Desert Journey from Antarctica to Nevada (p. 27)
- Andy Goldsworthy: Restoring the Senses (p. 32)
- Eco-Logic (iggo) (p. 36)
- Breaking Ground: Alan Sonfist, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Mel Chin, Michele Oka Doner, Jody Pinto, and Aviva Rahmani (1991) (p. 41)
- Environment, Audience, and Public Art in the New World (Order) (2000) (p. 47)
- Public Art Ecology: From Restoration To Social Intervention (2011) by Amy Upton (p. 52)
- Reinvigorating Nature and Public Art: A Conversation with Alan Sonfist (p. 62)
- Agnes Denes: Sculptural and Environmental Conceptualism (p. 69)
- Nature Redux: Nancy Holt and the '90s Reclamation Revival (p. 74)
- Herman Prigann and the Unfinished Ecology of Sculpture (p. 78)
- Acid Mine Drainage and Art: Art, History, and Science in Rural Pennsylvania (p. 83)
- Stacy Levy: Understanding Nature As it Happens (p. 86)
- Artists Confronting Problems: A Conversation with Michael Singer (p. 91)
- Buster Simpson: Greening Public Art (p. 96)
- Working By Any Means Necessary: A Conversation with Mel Chin (p. 102)
- Art in the Public Interest: A Conversation with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (p. 107)
- Poetry in the Mundane: A Conversation with Mags Harries and Lajos Héder (p. 113)
- Tim Collins and Reiko Goto: Art Has Everything to Do With It (p. 118)
- Visualizing the Water Cycle: Buster Simpson, jann Rosen-Queralt, and Ellen Sollod at Brightwater Treatment System (p. 121)
- Liquidating Tradition: Contemporary Fountains (p. 124)
- Keeper of Water: A Conversation with Betsy Damon (p. 129)
- Art and Water for the Future: A Conversation with Ichi Ikeda (p. 133)
- The Theater of Flow: A Conversation with Lorna Jordan (p. 139)
- The Planet According to Maya Lin: What is Missing? and Confluence Project (p. 144)
- Brandon Ballengée: Deviant Histories (p. 150)
- Suspended in Time: A Conversation with Yolanda Gutierrez (p. 154)
- Trans-Species Art: A Conversation with Lynne Hull (p. 157)
- Equal Opportunity Housing (p. 161)
- Presidio Habitats: A Model Art and Wildlife Collaboration (p. 165)
- Fritz Haeg's Alternative Possibilities (p. 168)
- Bob Bingham: Building Environment (p. 172)
- Plant Art: Is There Room to Grow? (p. 175)
- Mara Adamitz Scrupe: How Does Your Garden Grow? (p. 181)
- Vaughn Bell: Committing to Ownership (p. 186)
- Mechanical Botanical: A Conversation with Doug Buis (p. 190)
- The Culture of Nature: A Conversation with Mark Dion (p. 194)
- Center for Land Use Interpretation: Learning from the Cultural Landscape (p. 201)
- Nothing is More or Less Alive: A Conversation with Eduardo Kac (p. 203)
- We Are the Landscape: A Conversation with Steven Siegel (p. 210)
- The Art of Activism: A Conversation with Barbara Hashimoto (p. 215)
- Bob Johnson: Putting Trash in Its Place by Twylene Moyer (p. 219)
- Environmental Incentives for Public Art (p. 221)
- Off the Grid: Self-Powering Sculpture (p. 225)
- Generating Energy in Time and Space: A Conversation with Ned Kahn (p. 228)
- Social Sculpture: The Nexus of Human Action and Ecological Principles (p. 234)
- Piero Gilardi and Parco Arte Vivente: Generating Living Art (p. 239)
- Mary Mattingly: Planning for Survival (p. 243)
- Futurefarmers: Tradition Telling Truth to Power (p. 246)
- Art, Environment, and Politics: A Conversation with PLATFORM (p. 252)
- Christy Rupp: Daylighting Dirty Secrets (p. 257)
- The Yes Men/Yes Lab: Lying To Tell the Truth (p. 260)
- 51 Declarations for the Future-A Manifesto for Artists (p. 266)
- Eve Andrée Laramée: Revealing What No One Wants to See (p. 275)
- Making the Invisible Visible: A Conversation with Andrea Polli (p. 281)
- The Living: Responsive Structures for Dynamic Environments (p. 286)
- Marjetica Potrc: The Art of Sustainable Self-Sufficiency (p. 289)
- Modest Actions and Big Impacts: A Conversation with Mary Miss (p. 294)
- Platforms for Participation: A Conversation with Natalie Jeremijenko (p. 302)
- Acknowledgements (p. 311)
- Cover Images (p. 312)
- Photo Credits (p. 314)
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
The International Sculpture Center adds its fourth volume to the series "Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture," here focusing on earthwork, a classification of artistic practice and product defined as both working in the land and using it as subject or material. Like the editors' earlier volume in this series, Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks (CH, May'09, 46-4821), this volume presents conversations, interviews, and critical essays dotted with full-color illustrations to situate content and context. The 61 articles are accompanied by Lucy Lippard's introduction asking readers to consider how artists have been working with the natural world over the past 20 years and to ponder the ways in which people navigate the spaces of everyday life. Moyer's foreword calls attention to how and why these works offer new models of cooperation with scientists, agencies, and activists and to trouble-shooting and problem-solving opportunities gleaned through creative intersections between art and life. The New Earthwork foregrounds projects that engage dialogue between the environment and humanity in addition to the artists and collectives that create such works. As such, this pithy text will appeal to libraries of fine art, ecology, and social action. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. J. Decker Georgetown CollegeAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper are the editors of Landscapes for Art, Conversations on Sculpture, and A Sculpture Reader.