BIBLIO

Some interesting and ecologically appropriate books and films that I have encountered during my research and practice over the years… (ANY RECOMMENDATIONS WELCOME – These lists will be updated)

books

1.    ANTONY GORMLEY – Martin Caiger-Smith (TATE Publishing, London, UK, 2010) 

2.    INSTALLATION ART a critical history – CLAIRE BISHOP (TATE Publishing, London, UK, 2005) 

3.    Resurgence Magazine is published bi-monthly by The Resurgence Trust, Hartland UK 

4.    CONVERSATION PIECES: Community and communication in modern art – GRANT H KESTER (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2004) 

5.    THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF ART – Suzi Gablik (London: Thames and Hudson, 1991) 

6.    ARTFUL ECOLOGIES edited by DARO MONTAG (Falmouth; RANE Research Cluster: 2008) 

7.    herman de vries – chance and change – MEL GOODING (London: Thames and Hudson; 2009) 

8.    THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST – Rupert Sheldrake (London: Collins; 1988) 

9.    LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS saving our children from nature-deficit disorder – Richard Louv (London; Atlantic Books; 2005)

10. COLOUR travels through the paintbox – Victoria Finlay (London; Hodder & Stoughton; 2002)

11. WHAT IS ART? Conversation with Joseph Beuys, Edited with Essays by Volker Harlan (Forest Row; Clairview 2004)

12. JOSEPH BEUYS AND THE CELTIC WORLD – SEAN RAINBIRD (TATE Publishing, London, UK, 2005)

13. ONE PLACE AFTER ANOTHER site-specific and locational identity – MIWON KWON (The MIT PRESS; Cambridge Massachusetts; 2002)

14. BRIGHT EARTH the invention of colour – PHILIP BALL (London; VINTAGE; 2008)

15. DREAMING THE DARK magic, sex and politics – STARHAWK (London; UNWIN HYMAN LIMITED; 1990)

16. ON CREATIVITY – DAVID BOHM (Abingdon, UK; ROUTLEDGE; 1996)

17. GENTLE ACTIONS bringing creative change to a turbulent world – F DAVID PEAT (Italy; PARI PUBLISHING; 2008)

18. THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS – DAVID ABRAM (New York; VINTAGE; 1997)

19. BIDEFORD BLACK the history of a unique local industry – SOUND ARCHIVES NORTH DEVON (Bideford, UK; SAND; 1994)

20. THE CARBON FIELDS – GRAHAM HARVEY (Bridgewater UK; GRASSROOTS; 2008)

21. EXMOOR”S INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY – Edited by MICHAEL ATKINSON (Tiverton, UK; EXMOOR PRESS; 1997)

22. THE REBIRTH OF NATURE the greening of science and god – RUPERT SHELDRAKE (London, UK; RANDOM CENTURY GROUP LTD; 1990)

23. THE FIELD – LYNNE McTAGGART (London, UK; ELEMENT; 2001)

24. FRAGILE ECOLOGIES contemporary artists interpretations and solutions – BABARA MATILSKY (New York; RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL; 1992)

25. LURE OF THE LOCAL senses of place in a multi-centered society – LUCY LIPPARD (New York; THE NEW PRESS; 1999)

26. LAND ART – BEN TUFNELL (London; TATE; 2006)

27. walking the line – RICHARD LONG (London; THAMES & HUDSON; 2002)

28. ENCLOSURE – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY (London; THAMES & HUDSON; 2007)

29. ARTE POVERA – ROBERT LUMLEY (London; TATE; 2004)

30. Cy Twombly: CYCLES AND SEASONS – edited by NICHOLAS SEROTA (London; TATE; 2008)

31. TRACEY EMIN – NEAL BROWN (London; TATE; 2006)

32. PEDOGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED – PAULO FREIRE (London; PENGUIN; 1970)

33. REAL ENGLAND the battle against the bland – PAUL KINGSNORTH (London; PORTABELLO BOOKS LTD; 2008)

34. SYCHRONICITY the bridge between matter and mind – F DAVID PEAT (USA; BANTAM BOOKS; 1987)

35. ABOROGINAL ART – WALLY CARUANA (London; THAMES & HUDSON; 1993)

36. LAND ART – MICHAEL LAILACH (Cologne; TASCHEN; 2007)

37. BEYOND SACRED recent paintings from australia’s remote aboriginal communities – compiled by COLOIN LAVERTY (Victoria, Australia; HARDIE GRANT BOOKS; 2008)

38. THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODDESS – MARIJA GIMBUTAS (London; THAMES & HUDSON; 1989)

39. BECOMING ANIMAL an earthly cosmology – David Abram (New York; RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS; 2010)

40.  TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE – Albert Borgmann (Chicago; THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS; 1984)

41. DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS AND SOCIAL PROCESS, artists of the invisible – Allan Kaplan (London; PLUTO PRESS; 2002)

42.  PARTICIPATION – Edited by Claire Bishop (LONDON; Whitechapel Gallery; 2006)

43. DREAMING WITH OPEN EYES the shamnic spirit in twentieth century art & culture – Michael Tucker (SAN FRANCISCO; Aquarian/Harper; 1992)

44. THE SHAMAN & THE MAGICIAN journeys between worlds – Nevill Drury (LONDON; Arkana; 1982)

45. FROM PRIMITIVES TO ZEN a thematic sourcebook of the history of religions – Mircea Eliade (LONDON; Collins; 1967)

46. WANDERLUST a history of walking – Rebecca Solnit (LONDON: Verso : 2001)

47. THE WORM FORGIVES THE PLOUGH – John Stewart Collis (LONDON; Vintage; 1973)

48. SITUATION – Edited by Claire Doherty (LONDON; Whitechapel Gallery; 2009)

49. THE CROCK OF GOLD – James Stephens (LONDON; Macmillan & Co; 1912)

50. THE POOR MOUTH – Flann O’Brien (LONDON; Flamingo; 1993)

51. THE THIRD POLICEMAN – Flann O’Brien (LONDON; Flamingo; 1993)

52. TARKA THE OTTER – Henry Williamson (LONDON; Puffin; 1927)

53. WATERSHIP DOWN – Richard Adams (LONDON; Puffin; 1973)

54. DUNCTON WOOD – William Horwood (LONDON; Hamlyn; 1981)

55. Alastair McIntosh, SOIL AND SOUL – People Versus Corporate Power (London; Aurum Press, 2004)

56. Ecopsychology – Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind; Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes & Allen D. Kanner (Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1995)

57. THE PAINTER’S HANDBOOK – Mark David Gottsegen (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications; 2006)

58. Masanobu Fukuoka, One-Straw Revolution (New York; New York Review Books; 1978)

films

1. THE FIELD – produced by NOEL PEARSON (DVD; Ireland; GRANADA FILMS; 1991)

2. INTO THE WILD – directed by SEAN PENN (PARAMOUNT VANTAGE; 2007)

3. RIVERS AND TIDES working with time – ANDY GOLDSWOTHY (DVD; ARTIFICIAL EYE; 2002)

4. SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER… AND SPRING – KIM KI-DUK (Korea; TARTAN DVD; 2003)

5. TRIBE – BRUCE PARRY (UK; BBC DVD; 2007)

6. TEN CANOES – ROLF DE HEER ( Australia; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; 2006)

7. GANDHI – directed by SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH (UNIVERSAL PICTURES; 1982)

8. CHIWASEON drunk on women and poetry – IM KWON-TAEK (Korea; PATHE!; 2002)

9. RABBIT-PROOF FENCE – directed by PHILLIP NOYCE (MIRAMAX; 2002)

10. Robert Newman’s HISTORY OF OIL live – (UK; SPIRIT; 2007)

11. CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS – a film by Werner Herzog (PICTUREHOUSE; 2011)

12. PINA a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders (ARTIFICIAL EYE; 2011)

13. OUR GENERATION written and produced by Damien Curtis & Sinem Saban ( www.ourgeneration.org.au; 2010)

 

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