To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.
This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
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In this article Marianne O’Brien considers and reflects upon the aesthetic significance of Simon Hailwood’s conception of nature as articulated in an earlier volume of this journal in his paper ‘The Value of Nature’s Otherness’ (Hailwood 2000: 353–72).
With examples ranging form poetry to novels, literary scholar Hsu Hsuan presents a selection of literature on militarized landscapes. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
Hsuan L. Hsu is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming).
This exhibit considers how different forms of representation have been used to influence public perceptions of environmental harm associated with US military bases and activities worldwide. Instead of attempting a comprehensive survey of all the images, monuments, and narratives that have been devoted to these environmental impacts, I have focused on significant modes of representation including maps, films, literature, photographs, and monuments.
Documentary films can be a means to disclose the elusive long-term effects of nuclear and chemical contamination. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.
This paper aims to introduce the German Romantic poet Novalis into the discussion of the modern ecological crisis.
In this paper, Helena Siipi explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.
In this paper, David E. W. Fenner explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.