Planting critical ideas: Artists reconfiguring the environmental crisis
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Adams, JeffAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2020-05-10
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This article looks at possible artistic responses to the environmental crisis, using the theory of anti-mimesis as a means to rethink and reconfigure the ways that the crisis is understood. Initially using the nineteenth-century idea of anti-mimesis, or life imitating art, where art brings nature into existence in people’s minds, the article looks at the work of contemporary artists and writers who are challenging existing assumptions about human interventions into the natural world and the ways in which thinking may be reconfigured by these responses. In particular the sluggish response of governments towards tree preservation and planting is used as an example of the potential for artist educators to revivify the thinking around this issue through their creative insights, hence the metaphor of planting critical ideas, with the aim of creating a momentum of consciousness about the preciousness and fragility of our natural environment.Citation
Adams, J. (2020). Planting critical ideas: Artists reconfiguring the environmental crisis. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 39(2), 274-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12293Publisher
WileyAdditional Links
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adams, J. (2020). Planting critical ideas: Artists reconfiguring the environmental crisis. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 39(2), 274-279, which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12293]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-ArchivingISSN
1476-8062EISSN
1476-8070ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/jade.12293
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