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Field to Palette

Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene
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Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene explores the cultural significance and environmental challenges of soil in today's changing planet. Through dialogues, essays, poems, and practical experiments, the book bridges art and science to highlight issues like land degradation, pollution, and biodiversity loss while celebrating local food production and resilience. Contributions from over 100 global experts offer new visual and conceptual ways to understand and connect with the soil beneath us.
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This multidisciplinary work is ideal for readers interested in environmental issues, soil science, art, and sustainability, including researchers, artists, educators, and activists seeking fresh perspectives on our relationship with the earth.

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In an age of accelerated global soil degradation, creative approaches to protecting soil are warranted. This book is a transdisciplinary, multimedia reflection on the representation and meaning of soil resources in an age of crisis. It covers critical positions on land use, biodiversity, and many other facets of cultural dependence on the soil.

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Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene is an investigation of the cultural meanings, representations, and values of soil in a time of planetary change.

The book offers critical reflections on some of the most challenging environmental problems of our time, including land take, groundwater pollution, desertification, and biodiversity loss. At the same time, it celebrates diverse forms of resilience in the face of such challenges, beginning with its title as a way of honouring locally controlled food production methods championed by "field to plate" movements worldwide.

By focusing on concepts of soil functionality, the book weaves together different disciplinary perspectives in a collection of dialogue texts between artists and scientists, interviews by the editors and invited curators, essays and poems by earth scientists and humanities scholars, soil recipes, maps, and DIY experiments.

With contributions from over 100 internationally renowned researchers and practitioners, Field to Palette presents a set of visual methodologies and worldviews that expand our understanding of soil and encourage readers to develop their own interpretations of the ground beneath our feet.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138585096

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 November 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 340 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Edited by Alexandra Toland
  • Edited by Jay Stratton Noller
  • Edited by Gerd Wessolek

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 2180g

Pages: 683

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Dr. Alexandra R. Toland is a visual artist and environmental planner

with research interests in ecosystem services, urban ecology, soil and

culture, and the Anthropocene. She is junior professor for arts and

research at the Bauhaus University of Weimar and has previously

lectured at the Technische Universität Berlin, University of Arts Berlin

(UDK), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Leuphana University. She

co-chaired the German Soil Science Society’s Commission on Soils in

Education and Society from 2011 to 2015 with Gerd Wessolek and

continues to write and make artwork about soil.

Dr. Jay Stratton Noller is professor of landscape pedology and

head of the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Oregon State

University. His research focuses on morphologistics and human

interactions with soils in modern and ancient agricultural and forest

landscapes of the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. His

experience crosses disciplines of soil science, geomorphology, art,

and archaeology and his work as an artist at Soilscape Studio LLC is

internationally recognized.

Dr. Gerd Wessolek is a soil physicist and painter who has pioneered

efforts at giving soils and soil science a broader exposure to wider

audiences through presentations, exhibitions, and soil art projects.

Information on his research on urban soils in the vadose zone and an

online gallery can be found at http://www.boden.tu-berlin.de. Since

1999 he has been chair of the Soil Protection Department at the

Technische Universität Berlin.

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