Synopses & Reviews
Balancing environmental, ethical, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and has already dramatically reshaped the practice of architecture.
Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art.
The book explores the ways that this design strategy is being used-and sometimes intentionally misused-by an emerging group of artists who combine fresh aesthetic sensibilities with constructively critical approaches to the production, dissemination, and display of their art. Lavishly illustrated, the book also includes texts by and interviews with individual artists, along with substantial essays by exhibition curator Stephanie Smith and design historian Victor Margolin. What results is a bracing volume that will be of interest to practitioners and aficionados of design and art alike, as well as to environmentalists.
About the Author
Stephanie Smith is deputy director and chief curator at the Smart Museum of Art, an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago, and a founding member of its Open Practice Committee. She is an editor of Afterall Journal, to which she is also a regular contributor. She is the author of Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art and Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art.
Table of Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgments
Anthony Hirschel and Judith Olch Richardsand#160;Beyond Green
Stephanie Smithand#160;Reflections on Art and Sustainability
Victor Margolinand#160;Allora and Cazadillaand#160;Free Soiland#160;JAMand#160;Learning Groupand#160;Brennan McGaffey in collaboration with Temporary Servicesand#160;Nils Normanand#160;People Poweredand#160;Dan Petermanand#160;Marjetica Potrcand#160;Michael Rakowitzand#160;Frances Whiteheadand#160;WochenKlausurand#160;Andrea Zitteland#160;Checklistand#160;Artist Biographiesand#160;Mission Statements and Boards