Artistic visions of the Anthropocene North: climate change and nature in art / edited by Gry Herdin and Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herdin, Gry, editor.

Gremaud, Ann-Sofie N., 1981- editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology in art.

Climatic changes--Philosophy.

Climatic changes.

Global environmental change.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 169 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : Illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven essays, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the human-nature dichotomy. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and Bjoerk.

Contents:

Part I Interaction between Art and Science p. 13

1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780-1840 p. 15 / Gry Hedin

2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic through Artistic Research p. 41 / Eva La Cour

Part II Changing Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North p. 57

3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View p. 59 / Mark A. Cheetham

4 "We All Have to Live by What We Know": Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change p. 76 / Norman Vorano

Part III Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human p. 95

5 Conversations between Body, Tree and Camera in the Work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila p. 97 / Katarina Wadstein Macleod

6 Toril Johannessen's In Search of Iceland Spar. Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene p. 110 / Synnøve Marie Vik

7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk's Biophilia Album p. 128 / Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 154-166) and index.

ISBN:

1138232637

9781138232631

9781315311890

1315311895

OCLC:

1009068224