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Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic use their art to illustrate our current environmental crises and to reconstruct public understanding of them.
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. From the Heroic Sublime to Environments of Global Decline 1
I. Disappearing Landscapes: Feminist, Inuit, and Black Viewpoints
1. Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in Intersectional Feminist Art Practices 25
2. Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives 54
3. At Memory's Edge: Collaborative Perspectives on Climate Trauma in Arctic Cinema 85
II. Archives of Knowledge and Loss
4. What is Unseen and Missing in the Circumpolar North: Contemporary Art and Indigenous Collaborative Approaches / Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg 105
5. Viewers as Citizen Scientists: Archiving Detritus / Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg 130
III. Climate Art and the Future of Art and Dissent
6. The Logic of Oil and Ice: Reimagining Documentary Cinema in the Capitalocene 153
7. Critical Polar Art Leads to Social Activism: Beyond the Disengaged Gaze 176
Epilogue. Seeing From the Future 195
Notes 201
Filmography 229
Bibliography 235
Index 253
About the author
Lisa E. Bloom
Summary
Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic use their art to illustrate our current environmental crises and to reconstruct public understanding of them.
