Form, art and the environment : engaging in sustainability / Nathalie Blanc and Barbara L. Benish

List of illustrations -- Series introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Metamorphosis: art and the environment: 1. Expeditions, Earth and an emerging ecology ; 2. State of the art ; 3. Mysteries, tensions, questions -- Part II. Deciphering emerging forms: 4. Three green threads ; 5. Towards a new epistemology -- Part III. Experiencing the living and arts transformation: 6. Depictions of the living ; 7. An aesthetic of repair ; 8. The demiurgic gesture -- Part IV. The actors of the art-ecosystem: 9. Making new local economic cycles: artist as player and catalyser of civil society ; 10. Creative individuals: local production, lifestyle and Robinson Crusoe ; 11. Macro to micro: artist as scientist, engineers and designers -- Part V. Re-embedding forms: a transformed public: 12. Deception: Dada to Smithson ; 13. Taking it seriously and the refusal to accept permanence ; 14. Passive audience/acting public -- Part VI. Markets to micro-utopias: contextualising values: 15. The contextualisation of value ; 16. The great divide: artist and art ; 17. Micro-utopias: value scales ; Conclusion: art's sustaining blossom -- Bibliography -- Index