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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hans Ulrich Obrist
By (author) Kostas Stasinopoulos
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 182,Width 112
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art and design styles - Conceptual art
Animals and nature in art (still life, landscapes and seascapes, etc)
Environmentalist thought and ideology
Global warming
Handicrafts, decorative arts and crafts
ISBN/Barcode 9780141995311
ClassificationsDewey:709.22
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 31 March 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time. Featuring Ed Ruscha's memorial plaques to trees that didn't make it, Judy Chicago's urge to make a mark and express a feeling, Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe's activism flowchart, James Bridle's instructions to help plants along with their global velocity, Vivienne Westwood's plea for lockdown not to be lost, Olafur Eliasson's poetic wisdom to 'look up, look down', Marina Abramovic's performance art for the climate, and Rose Wylie's recipe for cooking for the environment, alongside many more.

Author Biography

Hans Ulrich Obrist (Author) Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show "World Soup" (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows. Obrist's recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialite (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018). Kostas Stasinopoulos (Author) Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and art historian. He is Assistant Curator, Live Programmes at Serpentine Galleries, London, working across the institution's interdisciplinary programme, Back to Earth and the General Ecology project.