Art and climate change / Maja and Reuben Fowkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowkes, Maja, author.

Fowkes, Reuben, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

World of art

World of Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology in art.

Climatic changes in art.

Political art.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2022.

Summary:

A timely introduction to the fields of environmental art, art and ecology, art and climate change, art and activism, and art in the Anthropocene. Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that addresses the climate emergency, as artists across the world call for an active, collective engagement with the planet, and illuminate some of the structures that threaten humanity's survival. Across five chapters, curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes examine artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on our world, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art from marginalized communities most affected by the injustice of climate change. What guides the artists gathered together here is an ardent concern for the living, breathing subject of the Earth and all fellow terrestrials caught up in this fast-moving climate drama. Publisher's description.

Contents:

Part I: Many anthropocenes. Geological records

Scars of extraction

Crude oil

Synthetic environments

Expanses of monoculture

Part II: Reconfiguring the geosphere. Soil reserves

Riverine ecologies

Marine permutations

Post-glacial landscapes

Golden age of the sky

Part III: Floral collectivism. Vegetal agency

Botanical politics

Self-management of plants

Plants on the move

Arboreal worlds

Part IV: Animal solidarities. Animals in the museum

Non-human persons

Countering extinction

Political ornithology

Magnified natures

Part V: Pluriversal ecologies. Entangled terrestrials

Reparative histories

Green protocols

Climates of transformation

Eco-futurisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780500204757

0500204756

OCLC:

1295404302