Introduction: From the heroic sublime to environments of global decline -- Antarctica and the contemporary sublime in intersectional feminist art practices -- Reclaiming the Arctic through feminist and Black aesthetic perspectives -- At memory's edge : collaborative perspectives on climate trau...

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Main Author:	Bloom, Lisa E. 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham ; London Duke University Press 2022
Subjects:	Kunst Polargebiete > Motiv Klimaänderung > Motiv Climatic changes in art Environmental degradation in art Art and society ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) Polar regions / In art Polar regions / In motion pictures
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	Introduction: From the heroic sublime to environments of global decline -- Antarctica and the contemporary sublime in intersectional feminist art practices -- Reclaiming the Arctic through feminist and Black aesthetic perspectives -- At memory's edge : collaborative perspectives on climate trauma in Arctic cinema -- Disappearing ice and missing data : contemporary art and indigenous and collaborative approaches / Lisa E. Bloom and E. Glasberg -- Viewers as citizen scientists : archiving detritus / Lisa E. Bloom and E. Glasberg -- The logic of oil and ice : reimagining documentary cinema in the Capitalocene -- Critical polar art leads to social activism : beyond the disengaged gaze -- Epilogue: Message from the future. "Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists use polar art to illustrate our current environmental crises as well as to reimagine our world and the ways we engage with it. Examining a wide range of contemporary art, photography, and film, Lisa E. Bloom shows how these works demonstrate the ways that our planetary crises are linked to climate change as well as a long history of colonialism and capitalism. Bloom insists on linking racial, sexual, and gendered discriminatory violence to wider environmental destruction, and she engages feminist, Black, indigenous, and non-western perspectives to address the exigencies of what we are experiencing now as the Anthropocene, or the new geological period characterized by ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations"--
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	xx, 265 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781478015994 9781478023241