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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth

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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth brings together an array of creative and thought-provoking contributions from artists around the world, offering innovative perspectives on environmental challenges. Each entry provides a unique artistic response or solution aimed at addressing issues concerning our planet, combining creativity with a call to action for sustainable and meaningful change. The book serves as a celebration of interdisciplinary collaboration, blending art and science to inspire readers towards environmental consciousness and stewardship.
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This book may appeal to you if you're passionate about environmental issues and appreciate creative solutions. Through engaging input from numerous artists, it offers diverse perspectives on addressing the challenges facing our planet today, combining art, science, and nature into an inspiring call for ecological action.

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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth is 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141995311

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 215g

Pages: 288

About the Author

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.

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