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

By: Demos, T. J [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783956790942 (paperback); 3956790944 (paperback).Subject(s): Ecology in art -- Political aspects | Arts and society | Human-plant relationshipsDDC classification: 701.03
Contents:
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.
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?Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), 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.
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A study of the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.

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- Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), 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.

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.

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?Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 7)
  • Chapter 1 The Art and Politics of Sustainability (p. 31)
  • Chapter 2 Climates of Displacement From the Maldives to the Arctic (p. 63)
  • Chapter 3 The Post-natural Condition Art after Nature? (p. 101)
  • Chapter 4 JYa bastal Ecologies of Art and Revolution in Mexico (p. 133)
  • Chapter 5 Nature's Sovereignty Conflicting Environments of Development in India (p. 167)
  • Chapter 6 Decolonizing Nature Making the World Matter (p. 199)
  • Chapter 7 Gardening against the Apocalypse The Case of dOCUMENTA (13) (p. 229)
  • To Be Continued ... Ways Forward (p. 259)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 273)
  • Index (p. 277)
  • Image Credits (p. 289)
  • Author Biography (p. 295)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).