Main entry:

Demos, T. J., author.

Title & Author:

Decolonizing nature : contemporary art and the politics of ecology / T.J. Demos.

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The art and politics of sustainability -- Climates of displacement from the Maldives to the Arctic -- The post-natural condition: art after nature? -- ¡Ya basta! : Ecologies of art and revolution in Mexico -- Nature's sovereignty : conflicting environments of development in India -- Decolonizing nature : making the world matter -- Gardening against the Apocalypse : the case of dOCUMENTA (13) -- Ways forward.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe - and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North - this text offers a contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. The author, an art historian, considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.--adapted from publisher's description.

ISBN:

3956790944 (paperback)
9783956790942 (paperback)

Subject:

Ecology in art Political aspects.
Human-plant relationships.
Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Politics, Practical.
Art criticism.
Community arts projects.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Economics.
Nature.
Relations homme-plante.
Écologie humaine.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.
Critique d'art.
Projets d'art communautaires.
Climat Changements.
Économie politique.
human ecology.
art criticism.
community art.
climate change.
economics.
Art and Design.
Art et écologie.
Art et politique.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293031
Call No.: BIB 237625
Status: Available