
The Artist as Ecologist
Contemporary Art and the Environment
Filipa Ramos(Author)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Will be published approx. on 14. October 2025
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-84822-523-7 (ISBN)
Description
How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media; and she considers the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice, underscoring the imperative for both artists and art institutions to adopt responsible environmental positions in their practice.
This topical and important book discusses the work of artists who have returned to the land; reviews how questions of shared rights and environmental justice are represented in contemporary artistic practice; highlights the renewed importance of performance and time-based media in ecologically themed art; and looks at artists' and art institutions' complex relationship to environmental action.
This topical and important book discusses the work of artists who have returned to the land; reviews how questions of shared rights and environmental justice are represented in contemporary artistic practice; highlights the renewed importance of performance and time-based media in ecologically themed art; and looks at artists' and art institutions' complex relationship to environmental action.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
20 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-523-7 (9781848225237)
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Person
Filipa Ramos is a curator and writer whose work intersects art, moving images and ecology. She is a Lecturer on the Masters Programme at the Arts Institute of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, where she leads the Art and Nature seminars, and Artistic Director of Loop Festival, Barcelona. Her publications include The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (as co-editor) and Animals (as editor). By merging curatorial practice, writing and transdisciplinary research, Ramos has expanded the discourse of Art History towards an ecological sensibility, encouraging museums, curators and artists to envisage art as a catalyst for social and environmental change.
Content
Foreword; Introduction; Returning; Claiming; Performing; Reverberating; Exhibiting; Conclusion; Notes; Further Reading; Index