Art & ecology now / Andrew Brown.
By: Brown, Andrew (Commissioning editor) [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500239162 (hardback); 0500239169 (hardback).Other title: Art and ecology now.Subject(s): Ecology in art | Nature in art | Landscapes in art | Nature (Aesthetics) | Earthworks (Art)DDC classification: 704.943Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 704.943 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 19/02/2024 | 00231808 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"343 illustrations, 338 in color" --title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'At the radical edge of life' -- Re/View -- Re/Form -- Re/Search -- Re/Use -- Re/Create -- Re/Act.
"‘Eco’ awareness has had an enormous impact, not least in the art world. This accessible and thought-provoking book is the first in-depth exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology. The book moves through the various levels of artists’ engagement, from those who act as independent commentators, documenting and reflecting on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and those committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. More than 340 illustrations feature the work of 95 artists and art collectives from all over the world, including 'The Artist as Family', Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Yao Lu, Tue Greenfort, Eva Jospin, Ravi Agarwal, Nadav Kander, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tattfoo Tan, Berndnaut Smilde, Simon Starling, and Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla" - publisher's website.