To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet

Name: To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
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ISBN: 9780520273627

ISBN-10: 0520273621

ISBN-13: 9780520273627

Edition: 2012

Authors: Linda Weintraub

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To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planetdocuments the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm's anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow's 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming. 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. The text guides students of art, design, environmental…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.980

Linda Weintraubis the Founder and Director ofArtnowPublications and the author of Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology.



Online Auxiliaries for Instructors and Students


Acknowledgments


Preface


Schematics/Indexes/Glossaries


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


Conspicuous Consumption



Watershed Management and Beautification



Energy Generation as Social Sculpture



Ecological/Political/Cultural Systems



Strategies to Sustain Life



Built Environments as Living Systems



Performing a River



Integral Naturalism



Template of Life and Dynamism



Primal Immersions



Urban Oasis



Preservation of Living Systems



Honoring Maintenance



Twenty-First-Century Eco Art Explorers


Species Reclamation



The True Cost of Coal



Soil Remediation



Planned Obsolescence



Contestational Biology



Neo-Pastoralism



Acid Rain Check



Poly Agriculture



Do-It-Yourself Energy Generation



One with Nature



Anthropocentric/Ecocentric Beauty



Bioelectronics



Salvation through Conservation



Cross-Species Affinity



Air Pollutants



Citizen Ecologists



Failings of an Engineering Triumph



Painting with Life



Cultivating the Human Body



The Sixth Extinction



Tactical Media Campaign



Corporate-Scale Eco Art



DIY Renewal for Slums and Condos



Deep Time



Pistols into Spades



Sun/Wind/Flower Power



Energy Foibles and Follies



Twin Perils-Excess and Scarcity



Prepping for Global Warming



Toolbox for Social Justice



Stop Shopping Gospel



Victimless Leather and Meat



Holistic Healing and Renewal



Turf Wars and Global Warming



The Future


Addendum; Personal Survey- What Do I Believe?


Suggestions for Further Research


Index