Publication Details Hardcover and Ebook. 192 Pages 14 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9780367349394 (H/cover) ISBN 9780429328862 (Ebook)
Author and/or Editor name/s Susan Ballard
Author and/or Editor bio/s Susan Ballard is an Associate Professor of Art History at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work spans the fields of art history, creative nonfiction, and environmental humanities. Her essays have appeared in October, Environmental Humanities, Reading Room, The Anthropocene Review, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Eyeline, and Art New Zealand. Her books include Alliances in the Anthropocene (with Christine Eriksen, Palgrave 2020), 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (with the MECO network, Open Humanities Press 2019) and Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (Routledge 2021).
Year of publication 2021
Publisher Routledge, New York
Abstract Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable — turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Yhonnie Scarce, Joyce Campbell, Lisa Reihana, Katie Paterson, Taryn Simon, Susan Norrie, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Ken + Julia Yonetani, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Angela Tiatia, and Hito Steyerl and with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics that challenges fixed concepts of nature in the Anthropocene.
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