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

To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents 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 studies, and interdisciplinary studies to integrate environmental awareness, responsibility, and activism into their professional and personal lives.

Arts & Photography

Weintraub, Linda

History & Criticism

University of California Press

To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents 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 studies, and interdisciplinary studies to integrate environmental awareness, responsibility, and activism into their professional and personal lives.

Profiles the homesteads of the Hudson River artists, including Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Asher B. Durand

Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios, and Vistas

Phillips, Sandra S.

Travel

Harry N. Abrams

Squarish 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers. 94 pp, 45 illustrations (13 in color, including cover), 4 text figures, portrait, bibliography. Published in an edition of 2,500 copies.

Archipenko: Drawings, reliefs, and constructions

Marter, Joan

Capasso, Nicholas J.

Rosenblum, Robert

Bard College, Edith C. Blum Art Institute

In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists routinely dissolve the old boundaries of art by creating works that neither hang on walls nor adorn pedestals, and often willfully overturn conventions of aesthetic value, permanence and optical reward. Curator and educator Weintraub has researched and/or interviewed 35 prominent radical artists and here explores their common concerns, creative processes and media. Devoting one essay to each artist, Weintraub offers a primer for museum and gallery goers who may be confronting such works for the first time, discussing Andres Serrano's photo of a crucifix submerged in urine, the half ton of dirty clothes Christian Boltanski piled on a museum floor worn by children of the Holocaust, Janine Antoni's mammoth blocks of chocolate and lard, Chuck Close's computer art and David Hammon's detritus constructions.

Art on the Edge and Over

Art Insights

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s

Art Insights, Inc.

Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art is part of an innovative textbook series entitled Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. The term 'cycle-logical' creates a linguistic link between recycling and psychology. Cycle-logic means expanding thinking beyond current uses and end-point discards. It envisions never-ending material use. The first section of the book explores current recycling protocols, the history of garbage, strategies for dealing with garbage, and the environmental implications of these strategies. The second part introduces the innovative manner in which contemporary artists are addressing these issues. The third part invites readers to activate cycle-logic through research, discussion, and art projects.

Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)

Science & Math

Schuckmann, Skip

Biological Sciences

Artnow Publications

Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology is a series of little cross-discipline college text books written by Linda Weintraub, with Skip Schuckmann. Each textlet examines a specific environmental issue from the challenging and diverse vantage points of eight to twelve contemporary artists. ECOcentric Topics explores the radical transformation of cultural values that accompanies the adoption of environmental considerations. The book discusses the compelling work of ten contemporary artists who are addressing these pioneering issues. The book also includes explorations that invite the reader to engage the issues through research, discussion, and creating works of art. 1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Ecology and Art Linda Weintraub, with Skip Schuckmann Artnow Publications A textlet is a little text of approximately one hundred pages. http://Avant-Guardians.com offers additional reproductions in color and supplementary information. Textlets assure curriculum flexibility: Mix and match class content Sequence and supplement course offerings Include in existing courses Compile for semester courses Each textlet focuses on one of the many ways that art and ecology intersect. Ecological principles are applied to art. Contemporary artists interpret, expand, and apply these principles. Projects and topics for discussion invite participation.

ECOcentric Topics : Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)

EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art is the third book in the series Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. As in her previous books, author Linda Weintraub introduces innovative and accessible analysis of vanguard art practices. In this instance she has produced a series of three college textbooks that explore the dynamic intersections between environmentalism and contemporary art. The twenty-two approaches are categorized as archetypes, designers, philosophers, activators, and dramatizers. Each category is represented by chapter-long essays on individual artists. The book organizes and defines the numerous divergent approaches to protecting and healing the planet.

EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art

Religious

By paying tribute to matter, materiality, and materialization, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural, and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture is identified as ‘Eco Materialism’ because it affirms the emergent philosophy of Neo Materialism and attends to the pragmatic urgency of environmentalism. In this highly original book, Linda Weintraub surveys the work of forty international artists who present materiality as a strategy to convert society’s environmental neglect into responsible stewardship. These bold art initiatives, enriched by their associations with philosophy, ecology, and cultural critique, bear the hallmark of a significant new art movement. This accessible text, augmented with visuals, charts, and questionnaires, invites students and a wider readership to engage in this timely arena of contemporary art.

What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art

Intellect Ltd

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

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

Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios, and Vistas

Archipenko: Drawings, reliefs, and constructions

Art on the Edge and Over

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s

Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)

ECOcentric Topics : Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art: (Series: Avant-Guardians: Textlets on Art and Ecology)

EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art

What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art