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Conservation Science and Contemporary Art: Thinking about Tenerife

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Art has long been seen as a way to illustrate conservation science for public outreach, especially to children. However, art has a greater role to play as a partner in interdisciplinary practice. Here we explore four examples where early-career conservationists have used the production of artwork inspired by contemporary art movements to engage critically and emotionally through the formalisms of art with conservation issues on the island of Tenerife. The authors suggest that the production of art by conservationists and as conservation (and vice versa) is key to learning to translate between art and science, leading to broader interdisciplinarity.

Source: Leonardo

DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_01153

Authors: Luke A’Bear, James Curtis Hayward, Meredith Root-Bernstein

Institutions: University of Oxford, University of the West of England, Aarhus University

Language: English

Topic: Art, Technology, and Culture

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1887899804

FWCI: 7.495

Cites: 10

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10