Marga Bijvoet Book order

Exploring the evolving relationship between art and nature over the past fifty years, the book highlights how artists have increasingly engaged with the environment. It traces the journey from the 1960s, when artists ventured outdoors to connect with their surroundings, to contemporary urban gardening initiatives and collaborative land reclamation projects. This work emphasizes the importance of re-establishing art's connection to the landscape and environment, showcasing various efforts to integrate artistic expression with ecological consciousness.

Art as Inquiry presents an alternative approach to the history of art and technology and art in the environment since the mid-sixties. Focusing on the search for a new concept of art, and a different function for the artist, this book discusses recent developments in Art in Public Places and Media Art in terms of new modes of interdisciplinary production and collaboration. In addition, Marga Bijvoet argues, the nature of inquiry of these art works requires a 'field' interpratation, which perceives art as a set of relations in context. She suggests that this 'movement' might eventually bear the seed for a new paradigm of the visual arts.