Environmental & Land Art

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Together. Imagine a world without trees. A world that is in many ways like our world, but where magnificent canopies, tree climbing and leaves rustling in the breeze are now only distant memories.Until a...

Temporary natural arrangements have captivated people across the world. Learn how a professional artist creates these outdoor installations, and get inspired to create your own with a detailed look at the outdoor world of artist James Brunt. Brunt makes...

'Natural', 'no waste' and 'plastic-free'. If this is how you want to live your creative life, you will find a greener, more natural path with this book. Found and Ground details a more sustainable and fulfilling approach to painting. Readers will...

The author unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities and representations. Entertaining as well as informative, this book offers a unique...

This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia which constructs huge, multi-nest 'apartment blocks' in the desert, to the Bar-headed Goose of China, one of the highest-flying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040524Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn...

The ice mountains of the Karakoram are among the world's greatest natural treasures. At 8611 metres (28,251 ft), K2 is the second tallest mountain on Earth. There are three other mountains in the range that top 8000 metres (26,247 ft) - Gasherbrum I,...

Hailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the same time reflects an ancient symbolism of strictly geometric basic forms accompanied by an interpretation of...

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art...

A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of ecocritical studiesSeeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art...

Documenting the internationally acclaimed collective craft project by the Wertheim sisters that brilliantly merges ecology, knitting, science and installation art Australian-born, California-based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044455Author Bruno LatourFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Art and science - they may seem like opposites, but throughout history there have been visionaries who have brought together these contrasting subjects.The Art of Science explores the work of 40 such artists and artist-scientists, uncovering how these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047791Author Giovanni AloiFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The work of the artist couple Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic uniquely their own: surreal and ethereal...

Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. What I want from art," says Paglen, "is to help see the historical moment we live in." His photographs make visible things we're not meant to see; he regards this invisibility as emblematic of...

Award-winning author, curator and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America's most influential writers on contemporary art, and she is a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism and feminist art. Working from experience in a New Mexico...

This publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook's artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook's practice in the...

An in-depth exploration of the pathbreaking works of Nancy Holt, a pioneering practitioner of Conceptual and Land Art Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist's key experiments in visual art presenting works never seen before,...

An artist's uniquely personal journey across AmericaIn the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the...

Discover hundreds of the most interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world in this stunningly immersive and beautifully illustrated title!Amazing Art Adventures offers us art and culture as an experience both within and beyond the...

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely-or, perhaps, broadly-what Annie...

Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green...

Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385360985Author Ebba KochFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 2277gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783947563975Author Juergen ClausFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KGPublisher Dr. Cantz'sche...

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947830793Author Carmen HerreraFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Lisson GalleryPublisher Lisson GalleryWeight(grams) 1196g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863350129Author Marie SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)...

A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific artIn the decades after World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578537054Author Giovanni AloiFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint AntennaeprojectPublisher AntennaeprojectWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016270Author Patrick ShepherdFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784716805579Author Reynold JeroldFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Reynold JeroldPublisher Reynold JeroldWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462085886Author Mariska Van Den BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nai010 PublishersPublisher Nai010 PublishersWeight(grams) 197g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862750135Author Neil StannersFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint GaramondePublisher GaramondeWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976079330Author Barry WallensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Xanadu PressPublisher Xanadu PressWeight(grams) 50g

This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.”Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027909Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely-or, perhaps, broadly-what Annie...