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Environmental art, the Glossary

Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works.^[1]

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Agnes Denes

Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York.

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Alan Sonfist

Alan Sonfist (born March 26, 1946) is a New York City based American artist best known as a "pioneer" and a "trailblazer" of the Land or Earth Art movement.

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Alexis Rockman (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering.

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Andrea Polli

Andrea Polli (born 1968) is an environmental artist and writer.

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (born 25 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

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Arte Povera

Arte Povera (literally "poor art") was an art movement that took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in major cities throughout Italy and above all in Turin. Environmental art and arte Povera are modern art.

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Aviva Rahmani

Aviva Rahmani is an Ecological artist whose public and ecological art projects have involved collaborative interdisciplinary community teams with scientists, planners, environmentalists and other artists.

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Beverly Naidus

Beverly Naidus (born 1953) is an American artist, author and current faculty member of University of Washington Tacoma.

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BioArt

BioArt is an art practice where artists work with biology, live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Environmental art and BioArt are visual arts genres.

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Bonnie Sherk

Bonnie Ora Sherk (née Bonnie Ora Kellner; May 18, 1945 – August 8, 2021) was an American landscape-space artist, performance artist, landscape planner, and educator.

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Brigitte Hitschler

Brigitte Hitschler (born 1954 in Bochum, West Germany) is a German artist.

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Carbon sequestration

Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.

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Cave painting

In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.

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Chris Drury (artist)

Chris Drury (born 1948) is a British environmental artist.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Crop art

Crop art is an environmental art practice using plants and seeds in the landscape to create statements, marks and/or images.

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Diane Burko

Diane Burko (born 1945 Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter and photographer.

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Ecofeminist art

Ecofeminist art emerged in the 1970s in response to ecofeminist philosophy, that was particularly articulated by writers such as Carolyn Merchant, Val Plumwood, Donna Haraway, Starhawk, Greta Gaard, Karen J. Warren, and Rebecca Solnit. Environmental art and ecofeminist art are contemporary art.

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Ecological art

Ecological art is an art genre and artistic practice that seeks to preserve, remediate and/or vitalize the life forms, resources and ecology of Earth. Environmental art and Ecological art are contemporary art and visual arts genres.

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Ecological design

Ecological design or ecodesign is an approach to designing products and services that gives special consideration to the environmental impacts of a product over its entire lifecycle. Environmental art and Ecological design are environmentalism.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Ecopsychology

Ecopsychology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field that focuses on the synthesis of ecology and psychology and the promotion of sustainability.

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Ecovention

Ecovention was a term invented by Amy Lipton and Sue Spaid in 1999 to refer to an ecological art intervention in environmental degradation.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Environmental movement

The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement) is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainable living. Environmental art and environmental movement are environmentalism.

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Environmental sculpture

Environmental sculpture is sculpture that creates or alters the environment for the viewer, as opposed to presenting itself figurally or monumentally before the viewer. Environmental art and Environmental sculpture are contemporary art, modern art and visual arts genres.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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Erika Wanenmacher

Erika Wanenmacher (born 1955) is a sculptor and installation artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, a self-described "maker of things." She has said, "I believe objects that are made with intent carry resonance that can shift energy, power, and beliefs.

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Espalier

Espalier is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth for the production of fruit, by pruning and tying branches to a frame.

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Eve Mosher

Eve Mosher is an American environmental artist living and working in New York City.

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Experimental architecture

Experimental Architecture is a visionary branch of architecture and research practice that aims to bring about change, and develop forms of architecture never seen before.

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Grist (magazine)

Grist (originally Grist Magazine; also referred to as Grist.org) is an American non-profit online magazine founded in 1999 that publishes environmental news and commentary.

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Hamish Fulton

Hamish Fulton (born 1946) is an English walking artist.

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Herman de Vries

Herman de Vries (born 11 July 1931 in Alkmaar) is a Dutch artist.

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Houses of Parliament (Monet series)

Claude Monet painted several series of nearly 100 impressionist oil paintings of different views of the Thames River in the autumn of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London.

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John Constable

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.

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John Davis (sculptor)

John Davis (16 September 1936 – 17 October 1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of environmental art.

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Joseph Beuys

Joseph Heinrich Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU).

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Kassel

Kassel (in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany.

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Land art

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements. Environmental art and Land art are contemporary art and visual arts genres.

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Linda Weintraub

Linda Weintraub is an American art writer, educator and curator.

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Lucy R. Lippard

Lucy Rowland Lippard (born April 14, 1937) is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator.

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Mary Miss

Mary Miss (born May 27, 1944) is an American artist and designer.

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Material culture

Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society.

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Medicine wheel

Historically, most medicine wheels follow a similar pattern of a central circle or cluster of stones, surrounded by an outer ring of stones, along with "spokes" (lines of rocks) radiating from the center out to the surrounding ring.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Midden

A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.

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Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks

The Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks is a public park, storm water detention dam and Modernist "masterpiece" of environmental art located in Kent, Washington, United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paleolithic religion

Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and practices that are theorized to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.

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Pleaching

Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge or lattices.

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Process art

Process art is an artistic movement where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus; the process of its making is one of the most relevant aspects if not the most important one: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings. Environmental art and process art are modern art.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. Environmental art and public art are visual arts genres.

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Ralf Sander

Ralf Volker Sander (born 15 December 1963) is an international active sculptor.

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Renewable energy sculpture

A renewable energy sculpture is an artwork that produces power from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric or tidal. Environmental art and renewable energy sculpture are modern art.

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Richard Long (artist)

Sir Richard Julian Long, (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists.

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Richard Reames

Richard C. Reames (born September 20, 1957) is an American artist, arborsculptor, nurseryman, writer, and public speaker.

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Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.

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Ron Finley

Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes, collector of original blaxploitation posters, and proponent of urban gardening.

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Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze (born 1969) is an American artist and professor of visual arts at Columbia University.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Site-specific art

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Environmental art and Site-specific art are contemporary art, land art and visual arts genres.

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Soil contamination

Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment.

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Solarpunk

Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.

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South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles, south of downtown.

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Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty is a work of land art constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Environmental art and Spiral Jetty are land art.

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Sustainable art

Sustainable art is art in harmony with the key principles of sustainability, which include ecology, social justice, non-violence and grassroots democracy. Environmental art and Sustainable art are visual arts genres.

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Sustainable design

Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at improving the health and comfort of occupants in a building.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_art

Also known as Enviromental art, Environment art, Environmental-art, Nature Art.

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