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Art and climate change / Maja and Reuben Fowkes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World of artPublisher: London ; New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500204757
  • 0500204756
Subject(s):
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.
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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