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This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists' engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
List of contents
PART 1 From the Claude Glass to Drones: Framing Environmental Encounters 1 Vehicles of Truth: Portable Studios and Nineteenth-Century British Landscape Painting, 1856-1885 2 Painting Fog: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Blurred Visions of the London Atmosphere 3 Aerial Ontologies 4 An Interview with Tim Martin
PART 2 Areas of Outstanding Industrial Beauty? A Layered History of Reappropriation and Profitability 5 "It's Grim Up North": Depicting Mutations and Shifting Perceptions of Industrial Landscapes in the North of England 6 "Our Oil": Our Waves? Environment, Energy Transition, and Art in Twenty-First-Century Scotland 7 Managing Arcadia: From the King's Cross Estate to the Bretton Estate 8 An Interview with Adrian George
PART 3 Decentering Human Vision: Art in a Shared Environment 9 Pursuing Natural Beauty: The Artist as a Hunter in Eighteenth-Century British Art 10 "A New and Unforeseen Creation": Turner, English Landscape, and the Anthropo(s)cene 11 The Human Landscape: John Ruskin, Drawing, and Colour 12 A Matter of Time: Transformative Sculptures by Marc Quinn, Zuzanna Janin, Anya Gallaccio, and Andy Goldsworthy 13 Brexit, Gender, and Northern Ireland's Supernatural Landscape: Ursula Burke's "A False Dawn" and Candida Powell-Williams' "Command Lines"
About the author
Charlotte Gould is Senior Lecturer in British contemporary art at Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.
Sophie Mesplède is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth-century British art at the University of Rennes 2, France.
Summary
This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
