Eco-Visionaries: Library Items

Specific Themes

Here are some books that explore specific themes relating to art and ecology:

Land Art

Boetzkes, A. (2010) The ethics of earth art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Sustainability 

Cockayne, E. (2020) Rummage : a history of the things we have reused, recycled and refused to let go. London: Profile Books Ltd.

Architecture

Papanek, V.J. (2021) The green imperative : ecology and ethics in design and architecture. Revised and updated edition. New edition, 141 illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.

Buller, A. (2022) The value of a whale : on the illusions of green capitalism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Andrews M (2006) Land, art: a cultural ecology handbook. London: RSA. ISBN: 9780901469571. Shelf mark: 735.23/LAN

Rothenberg, David, Katz, Eric, Light, Andrew (2000).Beneath the surface: critical essays in the philosophy of deep ecology. 

Buell, Lawrence (2005) The future of environmental criticism: environmental crisis and literary imagination. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN: 9781405124768. Shelf mark: 304.2/BUE

Barbican Art Gallery and Museum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium) (2023) Re/sisters : a lens on gender and ecology. Edited by A. Pardo. Munich: Prestel Verlag in association with Barbican Art Gallery.

Kimmerer, R.W. (2020) Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. London: Penguin Books.

Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Y. (2023) Let’s become fungal! : mycelium teachings and the arts : based on conversations with indigenous wisdom keepers, artists, curators, feminists, and mycologists. Amsterdam: Valiz.

Liboiron, M. (2021) Pollution is colonialism. Durham [North Carolina]: Duke University Press.

Cervenak, S.J. (2021) Black gathering : art, ecology, ungiven life. Durham: Duke University Press.

García-Antón, K., Gaski, H. and Guttorm, G. (eds.) (2020) Let the river flow : an Indigenous uprising and its legacy in art, ecology and politics. Amsterdam: Valiz.

Fowkes, M. and Fowkes, R. (2022) Art and climate change. London: Thames & Hudson.

Hickel, J. (2020) Less is more : how degrowth will save the world. London: Windmill Books.