Art and Nature in the Anthropocene

Planetary Aesthetics

Susan Ballard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-34939-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable—turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Yhonnie Scarce, Joyce Campbell, Lisa Reihana, Katie Paterson, Taryn Simon, Susan Norrie, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Ken + Julia Yonetani, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Angela Tiatia, and Hito Steyerl and with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics that challenges fixed concepts of nature in the Anthropocene.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, narrative nonfiction, digital and media art, and the environmental humanities.

Susan Ballard is an Associate Professor of Art History at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Introduction 1. In the Holocene 2. Landscapes of the Anthropocene 3. New Taxonomies 4. Acceleration 5. Moving Beyond Geology

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Zusatzinfo	14 Halftones, color; 38 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, color; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1560 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-367-34939-6 / 0367349396
ISBN-13	978-0-367-34939-4 / 9780367349394
Zustand	Neuware