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International in scope, this volume brings together leading and
emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art,
visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key
questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and
their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly
shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and
climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the
environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of
climate change as it intersects with social, political, and
cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of
ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the
advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity
appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This
book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of
contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies,
cultural geography, and political ecology.
International in scope, this volume brings together leading and
emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art,
visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key
questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and
their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly
shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and
climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the
environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of
climate change as it intersects with social, political, and
cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of
ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the
advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity
appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This
book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of
contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies,
cultural geography, and political ecology.
A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of
ecocritical studies Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture
through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and
animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art
historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. This
book brings together scholars whose contributions extend
chronologically and geographically from eleventh-century Chinese
painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The
book's fifteen interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic,
cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study,
emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content
and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides
valuable new approaches for considering works of art in ways that
are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally
significant. With contributions by Alan C. Braddock, Maura
Coughlin, Rachael Z. DeLue, T. J. Demos, Monica Dominguez Torres,
Finis Dunaway, Stephen F. Eisenman, Emily Gephart, Karl Kusserow,
De-nin D. Lee, Gregory Levine, Anne McClintock, James Nisbet,
Andrew Patrizio, Sugata Ray, and Greg M. Thomas. Distributed for
the Princeton University Art Museum
In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices
that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by
environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships
between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that
foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists
are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's
cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current
environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in
work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and
moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur
Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art
that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela
Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well
as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio.
Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of
aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock
#NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are
creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a
socially just and flourishing future.
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John Akomfrah (Paperback)
T.J. Demos, Nicholas Logsdail, Nora M. Alter
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R653
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In "The Migrant Image" T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary
artists have reinvented documentary practices in their
representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless,
and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated
analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North
Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of
globalization and the ways their works connect viewers to the lived
experiences of political and economic crisis. Demos investigates
the cinematic approaches Steve McQueen, the Otolith Group, and Hito
Steyerl employ to blur the real and imaginary in their films
confronting geopolitical conflicts between North and South. He
analyzes how Emily Jacir and Ahlam Shibli use blurs, lacuna, and
blind spots in their photographs, performances, and conceptual
strategies to directly address the dire circumstances of dislocated
Palestinian people. He discusses the disparate interventions of
Walid Raad in Lebanon, Ursula Biemann in North Africa, and Ayreen
Anastas and Rene Gabri in the United States, and traces how their
works offer images of conflict as much as a conflict of images.
Throughout Demos shows the ways these artists creatively propose
new possibilities for a politics of equality, social justice, and
historical consciousness from within the aesthetic domain.
Increasingly and forebodingly, contemporary artists are turning
their attention to the subject of climate change, in poignant and
often confrontational ways. "The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change
in Photography and Video" explores recent and historic work in the
context of present-day environmental concerns, considering the
future consequences of the age of the anthropocene, and humanity s
harsh imprint on our planet. "The Edge of the Earth" accompanies a
major exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, and
includes works by pioneering and renowned artists such as Edward
Burtynsky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Richard Misrach and Robert
Rauschenberg; critical propositions on present situations by Chris
Jordan, Gideon Mendel and Brandi Merolla; plus visionary works by
Jean-Pierre Aube, Adrien Missika, Evariste Richer and Andreas
Rutkauskas. Photojournalism from the RIC s Black Star Collection is
also included, contextualising artistic reflections within half a
century of historical reportage on the environment.Produced as a
large-format book with high-quality reproductions throughout, "The
Edge of the Earth" includes critical texts by Benedicte Ramade and
TJ Demos, and an introduction by Paul Roth. This critical overview
offers the insight of artists into the present climate crisis, with
the motive of prompting reconsideration of our increasingly
perilous relationship to our planet. Published in partnership with
Ryerson Image Centre.
In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices
that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by
environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships
between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that
foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists
are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's
cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current
environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in
work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and
moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur
Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art
that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela
Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well
as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio.
Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of
aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock
#NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are
creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a
socially just and flourishing future.
Gerhard Richter is one of the most famous painters of our time,
worldwide. His fascinating visual spheres are characterized by a
unique originality and quality, in which the abstract and the
figural intertwine and permeate each other. This extensive volume
of pictures concentrates entirely upon the theme of landscape in
Richter's oeuvre. Through this genre, to which Richter has remained
loyal for more than sixty years, it is possible to see more than a
development in the artist's painting style. There is also a
perceptible, genuine independence in many of the works, which makes
him one of the most remarkable artists of our day. This book adds
to the understanding of the significance and pictorial essence of
Richter's art, opening up current insights into the theme of nature
and landscape in the twenty-first century.
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Art & Crisis (Paperback)
Caroline Ann Baur, T.J. Demos, Florian Dombois, David Keller, Dominique Lammli, …
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For the middle hall of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, South Korean
artist Haegue Yang (born 1971) has created a complex scene of
hanging blinds that play on the boundaries between inside and
outside, open and closed. This publication documents the
installation.
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