Introduction to 'Environmental and Land Art': A Special Issue of Ethics, Place and Environment

摘要

Artists, art critics, and art theorists have discussed environmental art, land art, earth art, and ecological art at least since the 1960s. In the last decade, driven by growing environmental concerns, the emerging significance of ecological art, and new trends in the artworld, the importance of this genre has been marked by major exhibitions, retrospectives, and several new books (e.g., Beardsley, 1998; Kastner & Wallis, 1998; Andrews, 1999; Boettger, 2002; Spaid, 2002; Tufnell, 2006). In comparison, discussion by philosophers has been patchy.