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Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future
In the environmental realm, science and art are inextricably linked. While science determines how we measure the health of our planet, art allows us to visualize our relationship to the natural world.
In Art of Action , seventy-nine artists share their stories and work to paint a portrait of our natural world today and the potential pathways - both positive and negative - we may follow from here. Their art expresses appreciation for all species and landscapes and explores our natural world lost, mourned and reconstructed. It described the fantasy of paradises new and vanished.
Each chapter asks us to celebrate, reflect, interact, protect and act, demonstrating the diversity of life and the legacy that the next generation will inherit.
No book can change the natural world. But these stories and photographs can build awareness, the first critical step in changing our collective paradigm from one that exploits and destroys nature to one that nurtures and values our environment.
In Art of Action , seventy-nine artists share their stories and work to paint a portrait of our natural world today and the potential pathways - both positive and negative - we may follow from here. Their art expresses appreciation for all species and landscapes and explores our natural world lost, mourned and reconstructed. It described the fantasy of paradises new and vanished.
Each chapter asks us to celebrate, reflect, interact, protect and act, demonstrating the diversity of life and the legacy that the next generation will inherit.
No book can change the natural world. But these stories and photographs can build awareness, the first critical step in changing our collective paradigm from one that exploits and destroys nature to one that nurtures and values our environment.
172 pages, Hardcover
First published July 28, 2007
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January 1, 2008
A really neat book about artists whose work has environmental themes. There are brief synopses about each artist. Some of them, very interesting. I just wish there were more pictures of the artists' work, rather than just one (sometimes an additional small image) for each artist. This book is right in line with work I'd like to do as an artist. Some of the ideas the artists had behind their work is stuff I've thought of for doing work (damn, they beat me to it!)
The book is bound really well with a very cool rubbery-like spine. It's published by Earth Aware Editions. I will be checking out more of their books. The book is part of the Natural World Museum, a mobile and global cultural institution providing art programs to engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Pretty cool. Makes me want to act.
The book is bound really well with a very cool rubbery-like spine. It's published by Earth Aware Editions. I will be checking out more of their books. The book is part of the Natural World Museum, a mobile and global cultural institution providing art programs to engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Pretty cool. Makes me want to act.
April 2, 2013
Certainly cool, there is a nice collection of artists and artworks including a vast series of practice. Unfortunately there is not a real content of this book except exhibiting nice images. Just another coffeetable book.
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October 10, 2014704.943 A7844 2007
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