Art, theory and practice in the Anthropocene

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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.  Read more... 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.