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Art, theory and practice in the anthropocene / edited by Julie Reiss.

By: Series: Vernon series in artPublisher: Wilmington, Delaware ; Malaga, Spain : Vernon Press, 2019Description: ix, 162 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781622737376
  • 9781622735921
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Julia Reiss -- The Anthropocene sublime : Justin Guariglia's artwork / Eva Horn -- Art, theory, and the Anthropocene / Martha Schwendener -- Art as destruction : an inquiry into creation / David Haley -- Imaginative engagements : critical reflections on visual arts and climate change / Julie Doyle -- Ecological art: origins, reality, becoming / Paul Ardenne ; translated by Charles Penwarden -- Charting urgency and agency / Jennifer McGregor -- Terra incognita : exhibiting ice in the Anthropocene / Julie Reiss -- Ethical grounds : the aesthetic actions of soil / María Patricia Tinajero -- After nature and culture : plastiglomerate in the age of capital / Weiyi Chang -- Curating digital decay : machines will watch us die / Patrizia Constantin -- A poem: a leaf / Alice Momm -- Blued trees as policy : art, law, science and the Anthropocene / Aviva Rahmani -- Students being transformed into trees : inverted anthropomorphization in order to enhance connectedness to natural environments and plants / Margaretha Häggström
Summary: Contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences. Designed to include multiple perspectives, it contains essays by thirteen art historians, art critics, curators, artists and educators, and offers different frameworks for talking about visual representation and the current environmental crisis. The anthology models a range of methodological approaches drawn from different disciplines, and contributes to an understanding of how artists and those writing about art construct narratives around the environment. The book is illustrated with examples of art by nearly thirty different contemporary artists.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.949577 REI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 13172

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Julia Reiss -- The Anthropocene sublime : Justin Guariglia's artwork / Eva Horn -- Art, theory, and the Anthropocene / Martha Schwendener -- Art as destruction : an inquiry into creation / David Haley -- Imaginative engagements : critical reflections on visual arts and climate change / Julie Doyle -- Ecological art: origins, reality, becoming / Paul Ardenne ; translated by Charles Penwarden -- Charting urgency and agency / Jennifer McGregor -- Terra incognita : exhibiting ice in the Anthropocene / Julie Reiss -- Ethical grounds : the aesthetic actions of soil / María Patricia Tinajero -- After nature and culture : plastiglomerate in the age of capital / Weiyi Chang -- Curating digital decay : machines will watch us die / Patrizia Constantin -- A poem: a leaf / Alice Momm -- Blued trees as policy : art, law, science and the Anthropocene / Aviva Rahmani -- Students being transformed into trees : inverted anthropomorphization in order to enhance connectedness to natural environments and plants / Margaretha Häggström

Contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences. Designed to include multiple perspectives, it contains essays by thirteen art historians, art critics, curators, artists and educators, and offers different frameworks for talking about visual representation and the current environmental crisis. The anthology models a range of methodological approaches drawn from different disciplines, and contributes to an understanding of how artists and those writing about art construct narratives around the environment. The book is illustrated with examples of art by nearly thirty different contemporary artists.

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