Artist As Ecologist - Contemporary Art and the Environment

How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media; and she considers the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice, underscoring the imperative for both artists and art institutions to adopt responsible environmental positions in their practice. This topical and important book discusses the work of artists who have returned to the land; reviews how questions of shared rights and environmental justice are represented in contemporary artistic practice; highlights the renewed importance of performance and time-based media in ecologically themed art; and looks at artists' and art institutions' complex relationship to environmental action.

About the author

Filipa Ramos is a writer, lecturer and curator whose research focuses on how art responds to environmental topics.

Product details

• Authors: Filipa Ramos, Ramos Filipa
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781848225237
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-523-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: New Directions in Contemporary Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Sustainability, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Environmental & Land Art, Installation art, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Performance Art, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Climate change;land art;performance art;sustainability