Helen Mayer Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 285867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Mayer Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen Mayer |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, The Harrison Studio, 417 Linden Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, U.S.A.. Web site: . |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Harrisons: Talking and Remembering
Peter Selz engages Helen and Newton Harrison in discussion about their expansive career in ecological art. The artists reflect upon the influences of Renaissance artists and the Bauhaus on the development of their approach, and they chronicle their concern with survival at progressively larger scales. In their recent Force Majeure series, working at the ecosystemic level, they present poetic meditations on prospects for the security of all living…
Public Culture and Sustainable Practices: Peninsula Europe from an ecodiversity perspective, posing questions to Complexity Scientists
This is the second of Structure and Dynamics’ thought-provoking series on potential impacts of iconic representations in communicating and helping to implement sustainable human practices. This discussion focuses on ways to expand broad cultural dialogs on solutions to sustainability. The definition of sustainability that is employed here insists that cultural behaviors as they work out in the landscape behave in manners similar to those of natur…
Seventh Lagoon: The Ring of Water
The Seventh Lagoon is an eco-activist artwork conversation -- with all of us -- on the rise of the earths's oceans previously exhibited and catalogued as part of the Lagoon Cycle (1985). The entire 360-foot work is now in the National Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France. We hope that its web publication will encourage further dialogue on these issues -- Editors."Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environme…
Shifting Positions toward the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness
The authors present their philosophy of a holistic and interdependent universe, and situate the origins of their work in their concern with the issue of survival. Following a model of nature as a conversation, their work is composed of visual and textual narratives presenting arguments for ecological preservation and a rethinking of current uses of technology. An emphasis on the potential of any work to affect this posited universal whole is rela…
Public Culture and Sustainable Practices: Peninsula Europe from an ecodiversity perspective, posing questions to Complexity Scientists
This is the second of Structure and Dynamics’ thought-provoking series on potential impacts of iconic representations in communicating and helping to implement sustainable human practices. This discussion focuses on ways to expand broad cultural dialogs on solutions to sustainability. The definition of sustainability that is employed here insists that cultural behaviors as they work out in the landscape behave in manners similar to those of natur…
Shifting Positions toward the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness
The authors present their philosophy of a holistic and interdependent universe, and situate the origins of their work in their concern with the issue of survival. Following a model of nature as a conversation, their work is composed of visual and textual narratives presenting arguments for ecological preservation and a rethinking of current uses of technology. An emphasis on the potential of any work to affect this posited universal whole is rela…
Shifting Positions toward the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness
The authors present their philosophy of a holistic and interdependent universe, and situate the origins of their work in their concern with the issue of survival. Following a model of nature as a conversation, their work is composed of visual and textual narratives presenting arguments for ecological preservation and a rethinking of current uses of technology. An emphasis on the potential of any work to affect this posited universal whole is rela…
Seventh Lagoon: The Ring of Water
The Seventh Lagoon is an eco-activist artwork conversation -- with all of us -- on the rise of the earths's oceans previously exhibited and catalogued as part of the Lagoon Cycle (1985). The entire 360-foot work is now in the National Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France. We hope that its web publication will encourage further dialogue on these issues -- Editors."Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environme…
Public Culture and Sustainable Practices: Peninsula Europe from an ecodiversity perspective, posing questions to Complexity Scientists
This is the second of Structure and Dynamics’ thought-provoking series on potential impacts of iconic representations in communicating and helping to implement sustainable human practices. This discussion focuses on ways to expand broad cultural dialogs on solutions to sustainability. The definition of sustainability that is employed here insists that cultural behaviors as they work out in the landscape behave in manners similar to those of natur…
The Harrisons: Talking and Remembering
Peter Selz engages Helen and Newton Harrison in discussion about their expansive career in ecological art. The artists reflect upon the influences of Renaissance artists and the Bauhaus on the development of their approach, and they chronicle their concern with survival at progressively larger scales. In their recent Force Majeure series, working at the ecosystemic level, they present poetic meditations on prospects for the security of all living…
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works)