To life! : eco art in pursuit of a sustainable planet / Linda Weintraub.

"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm's anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow's 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming. This text is the first international survey of twentieth and twenty-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth's diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today's cultural, scientific, economic, spiritual, and ethical frontiers. The text guides students of art, design, environmental studies, and interdisciplinary studies to integrate environmental awareness, responsibility, and activism into their professional and personal lives." -- Publisher's description.

Art genres -- Art strategies -- Eco issues -- Eco approaches -- Art: artistic infrastructure. Introduction -- Eco art is -- Eco art is not -- Eco: ecological operatives. Introduction -- Eco art themes -- Eco art aesthetics -- Eco art materials -- Twentieth-century eco art pioneers. Ant Farm (USA) : conspicuous consumption -- Herbert Bayer (Austria) : watershed management and beautification -- Joseph Beuys (Germany) : energy generation as social sculpture -- Hans Haacke (Germany) : ecological/political/cultural systems -- Helen and Newton Harrison (USA) : strategies to sustain life -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria) : built environments as living systems -- Allan Kaprow (USA) : performing a river -- Frans Krajcberg (Poland) : integral naturalism -- Mario Merz (Italy) : template of life and dynamism -- Carolee Schneemann (USA) : primal immersions -- Bonnie Ora Sherk (USA) : urban oasis -- Alan Sonfist (USA) : preservation of living systems -- Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA) : honoring maintenance -- Twenty-first-century eco art explorers. Brandon Ballengeé (USA) : species reclamation -- The Beehive Design Collective (USA) : the true cost of coal -- Mel Chin (USA) : soil remediation -- Chu Yun (China) : planned obsolescence -- Critical Art Ensemble (USA) : contestational biology -- Fernando Garciá-Dory (Spain) : neo-pastoralism -- Bright Ugochukwu Eke (Nigeria) : acid rain check -- Nicole Fournier (Canada) : poly agriculture -- Amy Franceschini (USA) : do-it-yourself energy generation -- Gelitin (Austria) : one with nature -- Andy Goldsworthy (UK) : anthropocentric/ecocentric beauty -- Andy Gracie (UK) : bioelectronics -- Tue Greenfort (Denmark) : salvation through conservation -- Terike Haapoja (Finland) : cross-species affinity -- HeHe (UK and Germany) : air pollutants -- Natalie Jeremijenko (Australia) : citizen ecologists -- Yun-Fei Ji (China) : failings of an engineering triumph -- Eduardo Kac (Brazil) : painting with life -- Jae Rhim Lee (South Korea) : cultivating the human body -- Maya Lin (USA) : the sixth extinction -- Michael Mandiberg (USA) : tactical media campaign -- Viet Ngo (Vietnam) : corporate-scale eco art -- Marjetica Potrc ̌(Slovenia) : DIY renewal for slums and condos -- Red Earth (UK) : deep time -- Pedro Reyes (Mexico) : pistols into spades -- Tomaś Saraceno (Argentina) : sun/wind/flower power -- Simon Starling (UK) : energy foibles and follies -- Gerda Steiner and Jor̈g Lenzlinger (Switzerland) : twin perils--excess and scarcity -- Tavares Strachan (Bahamas) : prepping for global warming -- SUPERFLEX (Denmark) : toolbox for social justice -- Reverend Billy Talen (USA) : stop shopping gospel -- Tissue Culture and Art Project (Finland and UK) : victimless leather and meat -- Lily Yeh (China) : holistic healing and renewal -- Marina Zurkow (USA) : turf wars and global warming.