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Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art book cover

1st Edition

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

Edited By Gry Hedin, Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud Copyright 2018
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the... Read more

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

Biography

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’.



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