The Ethics of Earth Art

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The 2012 book, Toward Global (Environ)Mental Change - Transformative Art and Cultures of Sustainability, proposes that the global crisis of unsustainability is a disruption of the hardware of civilization, as well as a crisis of the software of the human mind. [25] Art and Climate Change: Separate Bubbles or Mutual Membrane? theorises three key obstacles to environment-oriented change (bad ‘memes’, ‘Radical Inertia’, ‘Framed Questions’) and explores the possible role of eco-art in exposing and dissolving those obstacles. [26] The 2004 book, Ecological aesthetics: art in environmental design: theory and practice, presents an analysis of a variety of tendencies and approaches to landscape architecture, science and theory that inform research and the transformation of the landscape for over thirty years. [27] Green Arts Web, [28] compiled by Carnegie Mellon University senior librarian, Mo Dawley, is a compendium of core readings on contemporary environmental art, ecological art and theory (20th century to the present) that includes, among other sub-categories, for example, [29] deep ecology practices; [30] [31] [32] ecofeminism; [33] [34] [35] ecopsychology; [36] land ethic and bioregionalism; [37] sense of place; [38] [39] [40] and systems thinking. [41] [42] Principles [ edit ] Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art movement has sought to make visible the elusive presence of nature. Though most often associated with monumental land-based sculptures, earth art encompasses a wide range of media, from sculpture, body art performances, and installations to photographic interventions, public protest art, and community projects.

The following four orientations were identified: Environmental Design, Ecological Design, Social Restoration, and Ecological Restoration. Moyer, Twylene; Harper, Glenn, eds. (2011). The New Earthwork: Art Action Agency. Seattle, WA: ISC Press. ISBN 9780295991641. Neperud, Ronald W.; Hochman, Maria. "Environmental Design". Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010 . Retrieved 4 September 2015. Ecological restoration – Some artists attempt to alert viewers to environmental issues and problems through scientific exploration and educational documentation. They seek to restore fragile places and educate the public to the systemic character of bioregions through the use of communication, ritual, and performance. Some ecological artists engage people directly in activities or actions by confronting environmentally unhealthy practices with social, ethical, and moral ecological concerns. [65] Giannachi, Gabriella and Nigel Stewart, eds. Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts , Peter Lang, 2005.Homer, Nicola (October 3, 2014). "Agnes Denes Interview. A Visionary Artist. Work 1967-2013". Studio International: Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Spaid, Sue. "Ecoventions: qua an Arendtian Account of Freedom, Action and Miracles". Land Views. Online Journal of Landscape, Art and Design . Retrieved 24 August 2015. Krug, Don. "Ecological Restoration". Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Greenmuseum. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 September 2015. Naess, Arne (June 1992). "Deep Ecology and the Potters in (sic) Our Planet". Studio Potter. 20: 39–9. Demos, T.J. and Francesco Manacorda, Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Walter Koenig, 2010. Zimmerman, Michael E. (1987). "Feminism, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Ethics". Environmental Ethics. 9 (1): 21–44. doi: 10.5840/enviroethics19879112.Didactic or pedagogical works: share information about environmental injustice and ecological problems such as water and soil pollution and health hazards through education. [60] Lippard, Lucy (1997). Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: New Press. ISBN 9781565842489.

Cheetham, Mark A. Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the '60s. Penn State UP, 2018. Remediation projects: reclaim or restore polluted and disrupted environments – these artists often work with environmental scientists, landscape architects and urban planners. [52] [53] Create works that employ natural materials or engage with environmental forces such as wind, water, or sunlight. [46] Doan, Abigail. "HighWaterLine: Visualizing Climate Change with Artist Eve Moser". The Wild Magazine. {{ cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= ( help) Genzlinger, Neil (2021-11-19). "Bonnie Sherk, Landscape Artist Full of Surprises, Dies at 76". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-12-23.Strelow, Heike. Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice. Initiated by Herman Prigann. Birkhäuser, 2004. Representational artwork: reveals information and conditions through image-making and object-making with the intention of stimulating dialogue. [51] Boetzke makes two main points in writing her history of earth art: the earlier generation of earth artists were not just sculptors, she says, but multi-media artists who were interrogating the aesthetic experience of the world and attempting to create alternate modes of perception. The aesthetic dimensions of the artworks had ethical implications. Equally, subsequent generations of earth art have not simply been concerned with restoration, but consistently explore how aesthetics are inextricable from ecological investments. Krug, Don. "Ecological Design". Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 September 2015.

A current definition of ecological art drafted collectively by the EcoArt Network of international artists, founded in 1998, is "an art practice that embraces an ethic of social justice in both its content and form/materials. EcoArt is created to inspire caring and respect, stimulate dialogue, and encourage the long-term flourishing of the social and natural environments in which we live. It commonly manifests as socially engaged, activist, community-based restorative or interventionist art." [23] [24] Theories [ edit ] Hanor, Stephanie; Sanromán, Lucía; Barnes, Lucinda (2008). Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet. San Diego, and Berkeley, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Blandy, Doug; Gongdon, Kristin G.; Krug, Don H. (1998). "Art, Ecological Restoration, and Art Education". Studies in Art Education. 39 (3): 230–243. doi: 10.2307/1320366. JSTOR 1320366. Moon, Kavior (October 2019). "The Harrisons: Various Small Fires". Artforum. 58 (2) . Retrieved 23 December 2022.Rogers, Kendal, ed. (2011). Edge of Life: Forest Pathology. Art. Nacogdoches, Texas: Stephen F. Austin State University Press. ISBN 978-1936205318. Social sculptures: are socially engaged, time-based artwork that involve communities in monitoring their landscapes, and take a participatory role in sustainable practices and lifestyles. [57] Howard, Peter; Thompson, Ian; Waterton, Emma, eds. (2013). The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. Routledge International. p.200. ISBN 9780415684606. Strelow, (Heike (1999). Natural Reality: Artistic Positions Between Nature and Culture/Kunstlerische Positionen Swischen Natur und Kultur. Stuttgart: Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst. Spaid, Sue (2012). Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots. Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, Richard & Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. ISBN 978-0917562822.