Contents
Pt. I: Soil and the visual arts. The representation of soil in the Western Art: from Genesis to Pedogenesis / Christian Feller, Lydie Chapuis-Lardy, and Fiorenzo Ugolini -- Deforestation and erosion captured in historical art of the Pearl River Delta region, China / Walter E. Parham -- Transcendental aspects of soil in contemporary visual arts / Nico van Breemen -- Merging horizons - soil science and soil art / Alexandra Toland and Gerd Wessolek -- Soil colors, pigments and clays in paintings / Fiorenzo Ugolini -- In a supporting role: soil and the cinema / Edward R. Landa -- Pt. II: Under my foot - soil presence and perspectives in the work of four contemporary visual artists. Dig deeper / Margaret Boozer -- Creating fiber art with soil and rust / Lisa L. Kriner -- Soil, subsoil, priming and architectural design / Heinrich F. Jennes -- Art by the ground / Martine Lafon -- Pt. III: Soil and soul: literature and philosophy. To join the real and the mental place: the written earth / Suzanne Mériaux -- "Pochveniks"- "The Poets of the Soil": the Geological School of 20th Century Poetry in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia / Paul Belasky -- Comprehending soil within the context of the land community / Frederick Kirschenmann -- Core samples of the sublime-on the aesthetics of dirt / Alexandra Toland and GerdPt. IV: Perspectives on soil by indigenous and ancient cultures. European religious cultivation of the soil / Nikola Patzel -- "Rock - Stone" and "Soil - Earth": indigenous views of soil formation and soil fertility in the West Indies / Christian Feller and Eric Blanchart -- Mobilizing farmers’ knowledge of the soil / Domoina J. Rakotoson, Lovatiana A. Rakotonirina, Georges Sperpantié -- Ancient Maya perceptions of soil, land, and earth / E. Christian Wells and Lorena D. Mihok -- The soil memory: case study of a protohistoric archaeological site in Senegal / Bruno Chavane and Christian Feller -- Pt. V: Soil and health. Soils and geomedicine: trace elements / Eiliv Steinnes -- Do pedo-epidemiological systems exist? / Pascal Handschumacher and Dominique Schwartz -- "Earth Eaters": Ancient and modern perSoil - the dark side and the light side. Soil and warfare / C.E. Wood -- Yellow sands and penguins: the soil of "The Great Escape" / Peter Doyle, Larry Babits, and Jamie Pringle -- Soils and soil pioneers on stamps / Hans-Peter Blume -- Soil in comic strips and cartoons / Anne Richer de Forges,...[et al.] -- Soils and terroir expression in wines / Cornelis van Leeuwen.spectives Wessolek
