{"product_id":"landscape-into-eco-art-9780271080048","title":"Landscape into Eco Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores the practices of ecological art, a genre addressing the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. Examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and ‘70s, and the historical genre of landscape painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This engaging book is recommended highly for academic libraries that support studio art, art history, environmental studies, or landscape architecture programs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Heather Saunders \u003ci\u003eARLIS\/NA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For those seeking a foothold in contemporary conversations around our aesthetic relation to the land, \u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with useful strategies for engaging the conceptual, scientific, and affective components of our landscape experience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Melissa S. Ragain \u003ci\u003eLandscape Architecture Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and theoretical read, which systematically analyses contemporary eco art. It draws on key examples of the genre while reflecting on former land art legacies and paying homage to the forgotten art of landscape depiction. Ultimately, Cheetham expands our understanding of contemporary eco art by taking its heritage—along with its current condition—into consideration.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Selina Oakes \u003ci\u003eAesthetica Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not the least of the virtues of \u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art\u003c\/i\u003e is that it offers a well-developed sketch of one convincing, conceptually consistent way of understanding our present situation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David Carrier \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Summarizing what is now a vast literature on environmentally engaged art, Mark Cheetham usefully historicizes landscape painting, land art, and eco art in Western traditions—and polemicizes against severing any of these artistic practices from landscape as such. Rather than make excuses for the centuries-old genre of landscape, Cheetham wants to use its encumbrances to reveal investments from the past. An essential contribution to urgent issues of the Anthropocene.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Caroline A. Jones,author of \u003ci\u003eMachine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much-needed art history of the Anthropocene. Landscape art is not merely a precursor to contemporary practices, however. Cheetham’s ‘preposterous’ interpretive framing of eco art mobilizes fresh understandings of the landscape tradition in relation to Western industrialization. The case studies challenge the temptation to confine ecology to a political discourse. Instead, aesthetic history is borne out in a rethinking of how ethical dilemmas spark a new artistic modus operandi. A rich and compelling read.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Amanda Boetzkes,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Earth Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A major contribution to the burgeoning discussion of ecology in the history of art, \u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art\u003c\/i\u003e effectively cuts across a number of long-standing cul-de-sacs in late modern art scholarship by distilling debates from a truly expansive range of voices. Mark Cheetham’s claims about the persistence of landscape in the production and analysis of contemporary art absorbs cutting-edge thinking about climate change while working through legacies of environmental art in both Europe and North America.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James Nisbet,author of \u003ci\u003eEcologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLandscape into Eco Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thoughtful and historically grounded reflection on an important and growing practice in contemporary art, and its promotion of ‘ecological thinking.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRACAR- Canadian Art Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Manipulated Landscapes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Beyond Suspicion: Why (Not) Landscape?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Remote Control: Siting Land Art and Eco Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Contracted Fields: “Nature” in the Art Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Bordering the Ubiquitous: The Art of Local and Global Ecologies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400799265111,"sku":"9780271080048","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271080048.jpg?v=1730471607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscape-into-eco-art-9780271080048","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}