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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological
perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that
addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change
and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark
Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences
between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and
the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic
case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice,
reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and
broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of
media-from painting, sculpture, and photography to artists' films,
video, sound work, animation, and installation-and analyzes the
work of internationally prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson,
Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In doing so, Cheetham
reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a long tradition of
landscape depiction in the West that boldly enters into today's
debates on climate science, government policy, and our collective
and individual responsibility to the planet. An ambitious
intervention into eco-criticism and the environmental humanities,
this volume provides original ways to understand the issues and
practices of eco art in the Anthropocene. Art historians,
humanities scholars, and lay readers interested in contemporary art
and the environment will find Cheetham's work valuable and
invigorating.
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