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Border Ecology - Art and Environmental Crisis at the Margins

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book analyzes how contemporary visual art can visualize environmental crisis. It draws on Karen Barad's method of "agential realism," which understands disparate factors as working together and "entangled." Through an analysis of digital eco art, the book shows how the entwining of new materialist and decolonized approaches accounts for the nonhuman factors shaping ecological crises while understanding that a purely object-driven approach misses the histories of human inequality and subjugation encoded in the environment. The resulting synthesis is what the author terms a border ecology, an approach to eco art from its margins, gaps, and liminal zones, deliberately evoking the idea of an ecotone. This book is suitable for scholarly audiences within art history, criticism and practice, but also across disciplines such as the environmental humanities, media studies, border studies and literary eco-criticism.

List of contents

Chapter one: Introduction.- Chapter two: The Boundaries of the Map.- Chapter three: Landscapes of Slow Violence.- Chapter four: Entanglements.- Chapter five: Border Crossers.- Chapter six: Conclusions and New Directions: Border Art for a Border Ecology.

About the author










Ila Nicole Sheren is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her first book Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984 (2015), focused on the shifting definition of site-specificity in art of the U.S.-Mexico border region.


Product details

Authors Ila Nicole Sheren
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 12.03.2024
 
EAN 9783031259555
ISBN 978-3-0-3125955-5
No. of pages 227
Dimensions 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
Weight 311 g
Illustrations VIII, 227 p. 17 illus.
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history

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