Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide - Embodiment, Performance and Practice

What can creativity achieve in an era of ecocide? How are people using creative and artistic practices to engage with (and resist) the destruction of life on earth? What are the relationships between creativity and repair in the face of escalating global environmental crises? Across twelve compelling case studies, this book charts the emergence of diverse forms of artistic practice and brings together accounts of how artists, scholars and activists are creatively responding to environmental destruction.Highlighting alternative approaches to creativity in both conventional art settings and daily life, the book demonstrates the major influence that ecological thought has had on contemporary creative practices. These are often more concerned with subtle processes of feeling, experience and embodiment than they are with charismatic ''eco-art'' works. In doing so, this exploratory book develops a conception of creativity as an anti-ecocide endeavour, and provides timely theoretical and practical insights on art in an age of environmental destruction.>

Product details

• Authors: Owain Jones, Ben Parry, Anna Pigott
• Assisted by: Owain Jones (Editor), Jones Owain (Editor), Ben Parry (Editor), Parry Ben (Editor), Anna Pigott (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781350237230
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23723-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Conservation of the environment, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Pollution and threats to the environment, Cultural policies and debates, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics