This article from Saturday's Guardian is an interesting read
‘It’s positive, not apocalyptic’: can climate change art help save the planet?
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Hi Emma -
Thank you for this - I found it a useful read, pulling together various threads to follow up further.
I started trying to get my head round the reference to Sommer and Klockner's four categories describing the effectiveness or otherwise of environmental art as presented at ArtCop21.
I thought their 'mediocre mythology' category sounded a bit damning! I asked myself if they were really dismissing environmental art that draws on myth and folklore?
I seem to have found their original article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247331
After scanning, I can't find these four categories in it ... Maybe they came up with the categories later? I need to read the article more carefully ...
Anyway! I think if people want to make environmental art that draws on myth and folklore, they should definitely go for it!
This train of thought makes me connect with Robert Macfarlane's 'Underland'. He talks about cave art among many other things connected with humans' relationship with the environment under our feet. A stunning and deeply moving book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/08/underland-by-robert-macfarlane-review
Penny