The Artist as Ecologist
Contemporary Art and the Environment
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published:14th Oct '25
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'In this book, Ramos explores the fascinating ways that contemporary artists are responding to the ecological crises unfolding around us. The book's central argument is vital and timely: the power of the arts to change the way we think, feel, and understand has never been more important.' – Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'Making fresh sense of apparent trends in the art world towards planetary consciousness, and ecological and social practices, Ramos plots a powerful long view of the role of the artist. Foregrounding those who are "breaking the spell of modernity", her book convincingly demonstrates that if art is to be meaningful now, it must be founded in awareness of our complex coexistence on this planet: human and non-human.' – Catherine Wood, Director of Curatorial & Chief Curator, Tate Modern
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
'A timely, much-needed account of contemporary art's interaction with activism and the environment' – Jeremy Deller, artist
ISBN: 9781848225237
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight: unknown
144 pages