1st Edition
Form, Art and the Environment Engaging in Sustainability
Part 1 Introduction- Environmental Topics as An Everlasting Relationship 1. Art and Environment: Historical Crossovers between Europe and North America 2. Eco-Art & Indigenous Cultures Part 2 Alternative Paths to Sustainable Development via the Arts 3.Framing activity, process and experience as art 4. Living species in the world fabric 5. Engaging Dialogue with Other Species Part 3 The Artist as Player/Creator of Civil Society 6. Making New Local Economic Cycles 7. Creative Individuals: Local Production, Lifestyle and Robinson Caruso 8. Artists as Scientists, Macro to Micro Part 4 Recontextualizing Form in a Local Culture 9. Deception: Dada to Smithson 10. Taking it Seriously and the Refusal to Accept Permanence 11. Passive Audience/ Performative Public Part 5 Class and a new Art Economy 12. The Redistribution of Value 13. The Great Divide: Artist and Art 14. Rules of Access and Spheres of Justice 15. Parallel Structures Part 6 Conclusion: Culture and Sustainable Development 16. Artistic Utopias 17. Frankenstein's Paradigm 18. An Earth Future 19. Mana and Meaning
Biography
Nathalie Blanc is Director of Research at Paris Diderot University, France.
Barbara L. Benish is an artist and Founding Director of ArtMill: Center for Sustainable Creativity, Czech Republic.
