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Article: Propaganda in the garden: proving that there are still art rules to break, a spate of green avant-gardists invent unorthodox models for growing produce n underused city spaces.(NATURE: CULTURE)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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RATHER THAN WAIT for sustainable environmental policies to be implemented from the top down, increasing numbers of people are acting on a small scale and at the grassroots level--including artists, who are finding new ways of committing themselves to the world outside the gallery. For many artists dealing with ecological issues today, the point of departure lies in devising community interventions and social situations. Their endeavors depart from the linear, goal-oriented strategies of conventional activism and open up environmental engagement to metaphorical thinking and multiple layers of meaning.
The artists discussed in this ...