Thinking with the Harrisons : re-imagining art in the global environment crisis / Anne Douglas, Chris Fremantle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, A. I. (Anne Isabel), author.

Fremantle, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harrison, Helen Mayer, 1927-2018.

Harrison, Helen Mayer.

Harrison, Newton, 1932-2022.

Harrison, Newton.

Environmentalism in art.

Climatic changes in art.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, known as ‘the Harrisons’, dedicated five decades to exploring and demonstrating a new approach to artistic practice, centred on “doing no work that does not attend to the wellbeing of the web of life." Their collaborative practice pioneered a way of drawing together art and ecology. They closely observed, often with irony and humour, how human intervention disrupts the dynamics of life as a web of interrelationships. The authors of this book ‘think with’ the Harrisons, critically tracing their poetics as a reimaging and reconfiguring of the arts in response to the unfolding planetary crisis. They draw parallels between the artists’ poetics and rethinking in the philosophy of science, particularly drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead.Thinking with the Harrisons is for anyone concerned with the implications of ecology as part of a reimagining of public life, including through the interaction of art and science. Throughout their joint practice, the Harrisons sought to engage policy makers, governments, ecologists, artists, and inhabitants of specific places, sensitizing us to the crises that emerge from grounded experiences of place and time.-- Provided by the publisher.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on November 7, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789461665744

9461665741

9789461666161

9461666160

OCLC:

1455396601

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.