To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet

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To Life! Eco Fine 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'southward anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow's 2007 blitheness that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet past global warming. This text is the first international survey of twentieth and 20-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth'due south diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today'southward cultural, scientific, economic, spiritual, and ethical frontiers. The text guides students of art, blueprint, environmental studies, and interdisciplinary studies to integrate environmental sensation, responsibility, and activism into their professional person and personal lives.

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Nigh the Author

Linda Weintraub is author of Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art'due south Meaning in Contemporary Society; In the Making: Artistic Options for Contemporary Art and Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. The beginning volume deciphered vanguard art for popular audiences; the second examined the unique challenges of gimmicky fine art-making; the third introduced the material, thematic, and conceptual innovations being introduced by eco artists.

Reviews

"To Life! offers a great deal. . . . This volume volition be an indispensable improver to fine art libraries, museum collections, and libraries focusing on environmental scientific discipline and conservation. . . . Highly recommended."—J. Decker, Georgetown College Choice

"I believe this volume volition become an essential reference work for all those working as, or thinking of becoming, eco artists."—Rob Harle Leonardo

"Weintraub visually and descriptively untangles the complication of eco-art practices. . . . This volume is not simply ideal for students just should also be essential reading for educators and curators alike. To Life! shines a long overdue light on the work of eco-artists and it will surely inspire students and all those who read it."—Penny Skerrett Green World

"The book is a work of creative person profiling and art theory, woven with clear and thoughtful insight. Information technology belongs on the bookshelf of every intelligentsia."—Allison Schulz The California Journal of Women Writers

"To life! is thus offered to inspire more attempts to find means out of our issues."—Martin Spray Ecologist

"Linda Weintraub creates the offset thorough and illuminating study for rethinking the ecology bear upon of art practices, and the meaning of aesthetics, in relation to larger ecosystems. Through a advisedly curated choice of international artists, she lays the foundation for a deeper assay of the complexity and diversity of eco practices, linking these to other movements, past and present. The critical language is accessible and invaluable for understanding and analyzing the historical and conceptual underpinnings of ecologically based art works. All those interested in shaping the uncertain time to come will observe To Life! a must-read."—Patricia Olynyk, Artist, Managing director, Graduate School of Fine art, Florence and Frank Bush-league Professor of Art, Sam Flim-flam School of Blueprint & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis.

"To Life! is an informative guide that illuminates and elucidates environmental problems and ecological relationships. This remarkable multidisciplinary effort cuts the jargon of both the art and science worlds to bring the inspiration and insights of EcoArt to environmentalists, conservationists, and the general public."—Daniel Simberloff, Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Ecology Studies, University of Tennessee

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Table of Contents

Online Auxiliaries for Instructors and Students
Acknowledgments
Preface

Schematics/Indexes/Glossaries
Art Genres
Art Strategies
Eco Issues
Eco Approaches

Art: Artistic Infrastructure
Introduction
Eco Fine art Is
Eco Art Is Not

Eco: Ecolog ical 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) • Free energy Generation as Social Sculpture
Hans Haacke (Frg) • Ecological/Political/Cultural Systems
Helen and Newton Harrison (USA) • Strategies to Sustain Life
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria) • Built Environments every bit Living Systems
Allan Kaprow (Us) • Performing a River
Frans Krajcberg (Poland) • Integral Naturalism
Mario Merz (Italy) • Template of Life and Dynamism
Carolee Schneemann (USA) • Primal Immersions
Bonnie Ora Sherk (United states of america) • Urban Oasis
Alan Sonfist (USA) • Preservation of Living Systems
Mierle Laderman Ukeles (U.s.a.) • Honoring Maintenance

Twenty-Commencement-Century Eco Art Explorers
Brandon Ballengée (United states) • Species Reclamation
The Beehive Design Collective (U.s.a.) • The True Cost of Coal
Mel Chin (USA) • Soil Remediation
Chu Yun (Red china) • Planned Obsolescence
Critical Art Ensemble (USA) • Contestational Biology
Fernando García-Dory (Spain ) • Neo-Pastoralism
Bright Ugochukwu Eke (Nigeria) • Acrid Rain Cheque
Nicole Fournier (Canada) • Poly Agriculture
Amy Franceschini (Us) • Do-It-Yourself Energy Generation
Gelitin (Austria) • One with Nature
Andy Goldsworthy (U.k.) • Anthropocentric/Ecocentric Dazzler
Andy Gracie (U.k.) • Bioelectronics
Tue Greenfort (Denmark) • Salvation through Conservation
Terike Haapoja (Republic of finland) • Cross-Species Analogousness
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 (Due south Korea) • Cultivating the Human Body
Maya Lin (United states) • The Sixth Extinction
Michael Mandiberg (USA) • Tactical Media Campaign
Viet Ngo (Vietnam) • Corporate-Scale Eco Fine art
Marjetica Potrc (Slovenia ) • DIY Renewal for Slums and Condos
Red Earth (UK) • Deep Fourth dimension
Pedro Reyes (Mexico ) • Pistols into Spades
Tomás Saraceno (Argentina) • Sun/Wind/Flower Ability
Simon Starling (Britain) • Free energy Foibles and Follies
Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger (Switzerland) • Twin Perils — Excess and Scarcity
Tavares Strachan (Bahama islands) • Prepping for Global Warming
SUPERFLEX (Denmark) • Toolbox for Social Justice
Reverend Baton Talen (United states) • Stop Shopping Gospel
Tissue Civilisation & Fine art Project (Finland and UK) • Victimless Leather and Meat
Lily Yeh (Prc) • Holistic Healing and Renewal
Marina Zurkow (USA) • Turf Wars and Global Warming

The Time to come
Addendum: Personal Survey — What Practice I Believe?
Suggestions for Farther Research
Index

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Media

Brandon Ballengee:Species Reclamation Via Non-Linear Genetic Timeline: An Attempted Hymenochirus curtipes

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The Beehive Commonage: The True Cost of Coal

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Mel Chin: Fundred Dollar Neb Project

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Chu Yun: Constellation

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Disquisitional Art Ensemble: Molecular Invasion

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Fernando Garcia-Dory: The Shepherd's Schoolhouse

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Nicole Fournier: Sidewalk Live Dining

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Amy Franceschini:DIY Algae Hydrogen Bioreactor Kit

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Andy Goldsworthy: Snowballs in Summer/Glasgow/Dogwood

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Andy Gracie: fish, plant, rack

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Tue Greenfort: PET - Flasche

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Terike Haapoja: Community

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Natalie Jeremijenko: NoPARKS

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Yun-Fei Ji: Migrants of the Iii Gorges Dam

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Eduardo Kac: Apsides Biotope

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Michael Mandiberg:Oil Standard

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Viet Ngo: Lemna Corporation Wastewater Processing

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Marjetica Potrč: Duncan Village Core Unit

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Cherry Earth: Enclosure

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Pedro Reyes: Palas por Pistolas (Pistols to Spades)

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Tomás Saraceno: Girasol (Turning Sun)

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Simon Starling: Autoxylopyrocyclobores

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Gerda Steiner/ Jörg Lenzlinger: The Part

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Tavares Strachan: The Altitude Between What Nosotros Accept and What We Want

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SUPERFLEX: Supergas

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Reverend Billy Talen: Church building of Terminate Shopping

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Tissue Culture & Art Projection: Victimless Leather

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Lily Yeh: The Rwanda Healing Project

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Marina Zurkow: Poster Children

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Source: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520273627/to-life

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