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Ecopoetic art: initiate a re-envisioning of the natural world, inspiring co-existence with other species. [58] Ecological restoration – Some artists attempt to alert viewers to environmental issues and problems through scientific exploration and educational documentation. They seek to restore fragile places and educate the public to the systemic character of bioregions through the use of communication, ritual, and performance. Some ecological artists engage people directly in activities or actions by confronting environmentally unhealthy practices with social, ethical, and moral ecological concerns. [65] Create works that employ natural materials or engage with environmental forces such as wind, water, or sunlight. [46] Weintraub, Linda (2006). Eco-Centric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art (PDF). New York: Artnow Publications: Avant Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. ISBN 0977742148 . Retrieved 23 August 2015. [ permanent dead link] Social restoration – An ecological ethic where humans live in relationship to larger communities of life to catalyze socially responsible artwork. Socio-ecological artists critically examine everyday life experiences. These artists scrutinize relations of power that produce community tensions about ecological issues. [66]

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Garber, Elizabeth. "Social Restoration". Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010 . Retrieved 4 September 2015. Lippard, Lucy. Undermining a Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. The New Press, 2014. Kagan, Sacha. "The practice of ecological art". PLASTIK: art & science. PLASTIK. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 23 August 2015. Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape, Abbeville Press, 1989 and 2008.

Krug, Don. "Ecological Design". Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 September 2015. Environmental design/ Sustainable design – Some artists work with nature as a resource for particular aesthetic endeavors. Artists with an orientation to environmental design are interested in achieving particular formal aesthetic effects. In the 1980s and 90s, artists, architects, designers, and civil engineers explored ways to link art, aesthetics, ecology, and culture. [63] Lampert, Nicholas (2013). A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements. New York: New Press. pp.274–278. ISBN 978-1-59558-324-6 . Retrieved 28 December 2015. Spaid, Sue. "Ecoventions: qua an Arendtian Account of Freedom, Action and Miracles". Land Views. Online Journal of Landscape, Art and Design . Retrieved 24 August 2015. Baum, Kelly; etal. (2010). Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, Distributed by Yale University Press.Carruthers, Beth. "Mapping the Terrain of Contemporary EcoArt Practice and Collaboration". greenmuseum.org. Green Museum. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 23 August 2015. A current definition of ecological art drafted collectively by the EcoArt Network of international artists, founded in 1998, is "an art practice that embraces an ethic of social justice in both its content and form/materials. EcoArt is created to inspire caring and respect, stimulate dialogue, and encourage the long-term flourishing of the social and natural environments in which we live. It commonly manifests as socially engaged, activist, community-based restorative or interventionist art." [23] [24] Theories [ edit ] Cheetham, Mark A. Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the '60s. Penn State UP, 2018. Moon, Kavior (October 2019). "The Harrisons: Various Small Fires". Artforum. 58 (2) . Retrieved 23 December 2022.