Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North - Climate Change and Nature in Art

Sommario

List of Color Plates

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate

Change and Nature in Art

GRY HEDIN & ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD
PART I

Interaction between Art and Science

1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780– 1840

GRY HEDIN
2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic through

Artistic Research

EVA LA COUR
PART II

Changing Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North

3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View

MARK A. CHEETHAM
4 "We All Have to Live By What We Know": Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change

NORMAN VORANO
PART III

Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human

5 Conversations between Body, Tree and Camera in the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila

KATARINA WADSTEIN MACLEOD

6 Toril Johannessen’s In Search of Iceland Spar: Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene

SYNNØVE MARIE VIK
7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk’s Biophilia Album

ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD
Bibliography 156
Index 169

Info autore

Gry Hedin is curator and researcher at Faaborg Museum and holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen in Scandinavian Studies.

Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen in Visual Culture. She is part of the international research project ‘Denmark and the New North Atlantic’.

Riassunto

These essays, which focus on art from 1800 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that artists and scientists both examine the human impact on these landscapes as well as the difficulty of controlling nature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ann-Sofie N. Hedin, Gry Hedin, Gry Gremaud Hedin
• Con la collaborazione di: Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud (Editore), Gry Hedin (Editore), Hedin Gry (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367787080
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78708-0
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Nature in art, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries