Annotated Sources of
Research
Author: Victor A. Kovda
Article title: Disarmament and Preservation of
the Biosphere
Name of Website: Cambridge Journals Online
Date: December 1981
Last accessed: 30 May 2013
Victor A. Kovda highlights many of the issues facing mans
only life support system in an open letter I found in the Cambridge Journal. It
talks of a resolution adopted by the United Nations on strategic economic
development based on due protection of nature and the environment passed in
1979. Although it is reassuring to see the leaders of the world acknowledging
the issues, politicians tend to only react to issues when there is public
pressure for them to do so. Short-termism is partly to blame along with the
media polarizing every decision politicians make in an attempt to manufacture
‘news’ they are forced into reactionary politics.
This paper has been very useful in
outlining the position of the United Nations towards the biosphere. This could
be considered as the official view of the world.
An insight into the history and approach
that was intended to be taken by the world
‘The only planet of our galaxy that is known to
support Man and other living forms, and to have conditions favouring the
existence of life.’
Importantly it recognises the issues and
states the importance of them
Author: Harry Rand
Title: Hundertwasser
Date: August 2007
Place: Italy
Publisher: Taschen
Edition: 25th
ISBN-10: 3822834165 ISBN-13: 978-3822834169
Painter,
architect and ecologist. His ideas are proved as being more
universal than just a visual artist through his architecture and people in
other areas he has inspired. Amazing buildings. No straight lines. A wonderful
example of a man who’s art is not confined to one medium and that makes real
difference in the real world. Unlike some gallery art which only has its place
to raise an eyebrow of the viewer. Hundertwasser provides solutions, beautiful
ones at that, to bring us living closer with nature in a more harmonious
fashion. It is amazing seeing the visions in his paintings realised in such a spectacular way.
This man is my biggest inspiration at the moment. Genius
This book begins by showing you his
paintings and takes you on a journey explaining how he developed his
philosophies that lead to his architecture.
Author: Dee Breger
Title: Journeys in Microspace: The Art of the
Scanning Electron Microscope
Date: October 1995
Place: Columbia
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: x
ISBN:
0-231-08252-5
This
book has been of interest and use to me in understanding the fundamental
building blocks of our earth. It is essentially a book of images taken through
a microscope. It is very useful as a source to draw comparisons with its images
to those from the real world. A grain of sand for example looks like a
mountainside. Two sets of cells on an ancient conifer are almost identical to
the architectural drawings of a Hundertwasser building. I have been looking
into the lessons we can learn from bacteria to hopefully form solutions. I have
a fairly unlikely theory that if we studied bacteria in the right way would be
able to predict the future or at least a range of possibilities.
Author: Daro Montang
Title: This Earth
Date: 2007
Place: UK
Publisher: Festerman Press
Edition: x
ISBN: 978-0-9544187-4-8
After
meeting Daro and attending his lectures he gave me this book that is basically
a detailed catalogue of his work explaining the processes he has used. He has
an interest in dirt and the amount of living organisms within it. This is where
his work and ideas become useful and relevant to me due to my interest in
bacteria and life at an unseen level. Unseen life and energy have been the
focus of my studio work this year.
Author: Linda Weintraub
Title: To Life! Eco art in pursuit of a
sustainable planet
Date: 2012
Place: Berkeley, CA, USA
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: x
ISBN:
978-0-520-27362-7.
This
book has been very useful as an overall, up to date central intelligence for my
study into eco art and sustainability through its selection of artists and its
very useful key of areas artists touch on. This makes it easy to connect and
compare work in a focused way. It also explains links with other art movements
so you can gain a full understanding of where it has all come from. The book is
an illuminating study for rethinking the environmental impact of art practices
and the meaning of aesthetics in relation to larger ecosystems.
Author: Jeffery Kastner & Brian Wallis
Title: Land and Environmental Art
Date: October 1998
Place: x
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Edition: x
ISBN 0714835145 / 9780714835143 / 0-7148-3514-5
This book explores how
the traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when
many artists stopped just representing the land and started marking the
environment directly. It traces early developments to the present day, where
artists are exploring eco-systems and the interface between industrial, urban
and rural cultures. Alongside photographs, sketches and project notes, Kastner
compiles an archive of statements by all the featured artists alongside related
texts by art historians, critics, philosophers and cultural theorists including
Jean Baudrillard, Edmund Burke, Guy Debord, Michael Fried, Dave Hickey,
Rosalind Krauss, Lucy R. Lippard, Thomas McEvilley, Carolyn Merchant and Simon
Schama. It covers work of artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt or Robert
Smithson who all move the earth to create colossal primal symbols. It also
covers work by Christo and Walter de Maria who play with the horizon. It
explains how Journeys became works of art for Richard Long and how Dennis
Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land. A
good overview of the beginning of the land and environmental art movement.
Author: Francisco Asensio Cerver
Title: Landscape Art. World of Environmental
Design
Date: 1995
Place: x
Publisher: Atrium International
Edition: x
ISBN: 84-8185-001-2
Another
broad overview of the artists exploring work outside of the gallery, this book
looks at some of the largest scale works in particular. Unfortunately most of
the writing is in French so it could only be used so much.
Author: Sue Spaid
Title: Ecovention. Current art to transform
ecologies
Date: x
Place: x
Publisher: greenmuseum.org / The Contemporary
Arts Center / ecoartspace
Edition: x
ISBN: 091756274-7
This
book focuses mainly on the art that literally aims to help nature repair the damage
caused by humans, making the world a better place. I have learnt how artists
are able to be practical and visionary with their approach to their work. It is
sad that we are in this situation but great again to see art presenting itself
as a solution. This is the key to a brighter future and a ‘revelation’ I have
learnt (first from Hundertwasser) that art is able to do more than just
highlight or protest an issue but take the next step and present an answer.
Author: Jill Hartz (Editor)
Title: Agnes Denes
Date: January 1993
Place: USA
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Edition: x
ISBN-10: 0295972777 ISBN-13: 978-0295972770
Agnes
Denes has been one of the most important artists I have learned about since
Hundertwasser to inspire me. Her plan to take over a landfill site and turn it
into an oasis for nature and humans. We
need to learn to make use of our waste. We need to turn waste into something
useable. If we can do this we will be taking the step further than that of any
previous life form. This piece presents an answer in a similar way to
Hundertwasser. From
her early philosophical drawings to her living time capsule of Tree Mountain I
think her work is great. She doesn’t forget aesthetics while confronting
important environmental issues. Her Wheatfield’s that took over an expensive district
of New York raised important questions about misplaced priorities and human
values. Getting her work in such significant places like this, at the bottom of
Wall Street, is partly what makes her work so important. She will have done
this by selling herself. Key lesson.
Author: RANE
Title: RANE Research Cluster, University
College Falmouth
Date: 2008
Place: Cornwall, UK
Publisher: Festerman Press
Edition: x
ISBN: 978-0-9544187-5-5
The
RANE research is a leading environmental research group based in Falmouth. This
book is a selection of papers and research projects from a conference held in
2006. To pursue environmental art it will be senseless not to try to get
involved with this group and establish influence within what is as far as I can
tell is a pioneering branch of the movement.
Author: Sacha Kaga
Title: Art and Sustainability. Connecting
Patterns for a Culture of Complexity
Date: 2011
Place: Germany
Publisher: Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH,
Wetzlar with the support of Leuphana University Luneburg
Edition: x
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1803-7
Sacha
Kagan explores in incredible depth the complex ways in which culture and
individuals view the environment, sustainability and art. I have not had the
chance to read much yet but I definitely will. She analyses things to an almost
psychotic level and explains basic psychological reasons for thinking things. In
some cases showing how our ape instincts inform how we think about things. In
my search for how we are aware environmental issues and unseen energies this
book will definitely be an eye opener to make sense of what I am trying to
find.
Author: x
Article title: Google reveals plans for vast
new California campus
Name of Website: Dezeen
Date: 26th February 2013
Last accessed: 30 May 2013
This article looks into the new Google office. It explains
the plans of an incredibly well thought out design that allows the No employee to be more than a two-and-a-half minute walk from any other
to encourage a "casual collision of the workforce" and the spread of
ideas throughout the company. Perhaps the most efficient example of
practical design I have seen. With issues of space being raised by
globalisation maximising the room we do have and connecting people in ways this
building does will become key in the future.
Creators: Conor Harrington & Andrew Telling
Film Title: Old Norse
Full URL: https://vimeo.com/53156939
Last Visited: 30
May 2013
Really loved this video. Wonderfully
captures the beauty of the landscape and nature as I am trying to do and
documents the work of Connor Harrington, one of my favourite painters, in the
same context. You can compare the uniqueness and uncontrolled way nature works
with the way Connor allows paint to find its own natural way while it drips and
moves. Both nature and paint move freely within the set of rules they are both
powerlessly subject to react under. Just as all things and we must do the same.
As a further thought, this kind of way
of documenting work is a great thing to take influence from. Linking the
filming style and content in a way similar to the work presents it in a
relevant context
Key Texts for The Future
Key texts in the emerging field of sustainable art
include
·
'Kultur - Kunst - Nachhaltigkeit' (2002) by Hildegard Kurt and Bernd
Wagner
·
‘The Principles of Sustainability in Contemporary Art’ (2006) by
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
A collection of interdisciplinary analyses of the arts
and cultures with relationship to sustainability is available in
·
'Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures' (2008)
edited by Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg.
Exhibitions devoted explicitly to "sustainable
art" include
·
‘Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art’ at the Smart Museum in
Chicago in November 2005
TJ Demos, “The
Politics of Sustainability: Art 
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