Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s

by James Nisbet

A fundamentally new view of environmental art that traces a cultural shift toward the unruly complexities of global ecologies.

As the American environmental movement emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, ecological perspectives also emerged in art. But ecological artworks were not limited to conventional understandings of environmental art as something that had to be located outdoors or made of organic materials. Created in a range of media, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026708
• ISBN13: 9780262026703
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher