140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation

Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time.

Featuring Ed Ruscha’s memorial plaques to trees that didn’t make it, Judy Chicago’s urge to make a mark and express a feeling, Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe’s activism flowchart, James Bridle’s instructions to help plants along with their global velocity, Vivienne Westwood’s plea for lockdown not to be lost, Olafur Eliasson’s poetic wisdom to ‘look up, look down’, Marina Abramovic’s performance art for the climate, and Rose Wylie’s recipe for cooking for the environment, alongside many more.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 31/03/2022