Literature, Art, and the Environment
Although we think of writing and thinking about the environment is mostly done by scientists and scholars, important contributions have also been made by artists, writers, painters and photographers.
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Nonfiction:
Wikipedia book list Wikipedia author list
E. Abbey Desert Solitaire
W. Berry, Unsettling America
Mike Davis City of Quartz
McH Stacks HN80.L7 D38 2006 summary excerpt on urban space critique
Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 book by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac
Poetry
Robinson Jefers
Jane Hirschfield
Gary Snyder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder GST!
Film
Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature
Photography
Ansel Adams
The Roots of California photography [videorecording] : the Monterey legacy / a Monterey Museum of Art in association with University of California Santa Cruz Extension - Published Monterey, Calif. : Monterey Museum of Art, c2002 LOC CALL # STATUS Film & Music VT8907 NOT CHECKD OUT Spec Coll VT8907 c.2 LIB USE ONLY Description 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in Note(s) Narrator, Jack Lemmon ; music, John Harris Summary Chronicles the important photographic heritage of the Monterey region and pays tribute to some of the most important men and women in American photography, masters whose creative and technical visions changed the way the world views photographic art. Photographers included are Ansel Adams, Edward, Brett and Cole Weston, Wynn and Edna Bullock, Morley Baer, Henry Gilpin, John Sexton, Richard Garrod, Al Weber, Sonya Noskowiak, Margrethe Mather, among others
Ansel Adams [videorecording] / an Outdoor Channel production ; executive producer, Wade Sherman ; produced & written by Jayne Romyn Published Temecula, Calif. : Outdoor Channel, c2005 Added title Circle of honor (Television program) LOC CALL # STATUS Spec Coll DVD3829 LIB USE ONLY
Edward Burtynsky http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/China/Chapters/Manufacturing.jpg
| Course Themes |
| Ecological and Social Utopias |
| Literature, Art, and the Environment |
| Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges |
| Activism and Entrepreneurship |
