Art and nature in the anthropocene : planetary aesthetics / Susan Ballard
- Author
- Ballard, Susan, 1969-
- Published
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Access Online
- Taylor & Francis: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- In the holocene -- Landscapes of the anthropocene -- New taxonomies -- Acceleration -- Moving beyond geology.
- Summary
- "This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral and vegetable-turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. With a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics in the work of contemporary artists. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, narrative nonfiction, digital and media art, and the environmental humanities"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781000349528 electronic book
1000349527 electronic book
9780429328862 electronic book
0429328869 electronic book
9781000349580 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1000349586 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781000349559 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
1000349551 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
9780367349394 hardcover
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