Art and future
Subtitle: energy, climate, cultures
By: edited by Peter Stupples
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781527504103
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Art and globalization; Art and society; Nature (Aesthetics)
Description: "This selection of essays examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism. Following the lead of Chicago-based Frances Whitehead, whose essay is a key text, some contributors take positions on working with local government agencies to embed art-thinking within development projects, going back to the art-thinking at the centre of Kazimir Malevichs work in Vitebsk one hundred years ago in Russia. Other papers highlight small-scale art interventions that bring ecological issues to public notice and suggest positive responses, whilst others discuss large-scale problems brought about by the social, economic and laissez-faire history of the emerging Anthropocene with possible dystopic outcomes" -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: UNOVIS and the future of art  -- Peter Stupples; title: Ecological imperialism: Michael Shepherd's images of a changing New Zealand landscape  -- Elizabeth Rankin; title: Questions of culture, natural environment and ecology  -- Evelyn A. Armstrong; title: Nice background: two perspectives  -- Mark Bolland and Bridie Lonie; title: Scientific reification  -- David Green; title: Immanence and its distortions: metaphysics of an art/schience collaboration  -- Ashley M. Holmes; title: Resonating estuary: transitions from site to art  -- Jan Hogan; title: The water project  -- Margaret Feeney; title: Civic experiments: tactics for praxis  -- Frances Whitehead; title: Exhaustion algorithm  -- Luke Munn; title: Knowing climate change through art  -- Bridie Lonie; title: Pūkeko and butter papers: reflections on an environmental art practice  -- Catharine Salmon; title: Rocks by the sea: an artist's notes on his growing awareness of climate change and the need for cultural reappraisal -- Nigel Brown.