Featured Eco Art Books
What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art
By paying tribute to matter, materiality, and materialization, the examples of contemporary art assembled in WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (Intellect Books) represent a significant frontier of contemporary culture. Their bold art initiatives are identified as ‘Eco Materialism’ because they affirm the emergent philosophy of Neo Materialism, and they attend to the pragmatic urgency of environmentalism. The book offers work-outs, tune ups, and turn ons to activate Eco Material sensations. They are designed to acquaint participants with the lapsed wonders of sensory interactions. While such fundamental physical experiences have dominated human life on Earth for the past 1.6 billion years, currently they are being neglected in favor of data, simulations, and digital transmissions. Because these contemporary forms of material interaction are associated with planetary perils, the book and the workshop opportunities it provides explore materiality as a strategy to convert society’s environmental neglect into responsible stewardship. Within the social context, the shift that Eco Material artists are pioneering diverge from the behaviors and attitudes imbedded in the dematerialized forms of communicating, working, learning, and playing that currently prevail. Within the context of art, re-materialization diverges from the de-materialization of conceptual, relational, body, sound, social practice, and performance forms of creative engagement, and from the dazzling antics of cyber technologies. Enriched by its associations with philosophy, ecology, and cultural critique, this timely endeavor bears the hallmarks of a new art ‘movement’.
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. 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.
ECOcentric Topics : Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art
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. and also includes explorations that invite the reader to engage the issues through research, discussion, and creating works of art.
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EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approaches to Eco-Art
The third book in Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. Weintraub introduces innovative and accessible analysis of vanguard art practices and explores the intersection between environmentalism and contemporary art. The 22 approaches are categorized as archetypes, designers, philosophers, activators, and dramatizers. The book organizes and defines the numerous divergent approaches to protecting and healing the planet.
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Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art
Documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns. 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.
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