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Art & Ecology

Selected Readings for Teachers



Selected Readings from Earthly Matters

by Suzanne Seriff

Beardsley, John. Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists. Abbeville Press, New York, NY, 1995.

Blank, Harrod. Wild Wheels. Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco, CA, 1994.

Cerny, Charlene and Suzanne K. Seriff, editors. Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art From the Global Scrap Heap. Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, in association with the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, 1996.

Brett, Guy. Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern History. Philadelphia: New Society, 1987.

Brett, Guy. Transcontinental: An Investigation in Reality. Nine Latin-American Artists. London, New York: Verso, 1990.

ENDA "Man and Waste: Popular Recycling Activites in the Third World." Special Issue, African Environment, 8 no. 29-30 (1991).

Goldbeck, Nikki and David Goldbeck. Choose to Reuse. Ceres Press, New York, NY, 1995.

Gould, Stephen J. "From Tires to Sandals." Natural History 4 (1989): 6.

Greenfield, Verni. Making Do or Making Art: A Study of American Recycling. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1986.

Grothues, Jürgen. Aladins Neue Lampe: Recycling in der Dritten Welt. Trickster, Munich, 1988.

Hansson, Bobby. The Fine Art of the Tin Can: Techniques and Inspiration. Lark Books, Ashville, NC, 1996.

Hall, Michael D. and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. , eds. The Artist Outsider: Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1994.

Hine, Thomas. The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes. Little Brown and Company, Boston, New York, Toronto, London, 1995.

King, Kenneth James. The African Artisan: Education and the Informal Sector in Kenya. Heinemann, London, England, 1977.

Leon, Eli. Arbie Williams Transforms the Britches Quilt. Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, 1993.

Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 1990.

Lynch, Kevin. Wasting Away: An Exploration of Waste: What it is, How it Happens, Why we Fear it, How to do it Well. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1990.

McWillie, Judith, ed. Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways Through the Black Atlantic South. INTAR, New York, NY, 1989.

Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archeology of Garbage. Harper Collins, New York, NY, 1992.

Seriff, Suzanne. Snakes, Sirens, Virgins, and Devils: The Politics of Representation of a Mexican-American Folk Artist. Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.

Thompson, Michael. Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Vogel, Susan. Africa Explores: African Art in the 20th Century. The Center for African Art, New York, NY, 1991.

Videos

Music of the Spirits (27 min), by Ron Hallis, Canada/Mozambique, Flower Films, 1989.

Wild Wheels (64 mins), by Harrod Blank, Flower Films.

Creativity with Bill Moyers: Garbage--Another Way of Seeing (29 mins), PBS Video.

Baabu Banza: Nothing Goes to Waste (6 min), Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc, Princeton, 1981.

3-2-1 Contact: The Rotten Truth (30 mins), Children's Television Workshop, 1991.

Recycled, Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap (35 min), Chris Simon, Director, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico, 1997.

To order films, contact the following;

Flower Films10341 San Pablo Ave.
El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510) 525-0942
fax (510) 525-1204

Wings for LearningPO Box 660002
Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0002
1-800-321-7511

Films for Humanities and Sciences, IncPO Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053

The Museum Shop, Museum of International Folk ArtPO Box 2065
Santa Fe, NM 87504
505 982-5186

For further information and references on the topic of folk art from the global scrap heap, visit the web site for the exhibit of the same name, sponsored by the Museum of International Folk Art:

www.state.nm.us/moifa





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