Research Catalog

Title

Picture ecology : art and ecocriticism in planetary perspective / edited by Karl Kusserow ; with contributions by Alan C. Braddock [and 15 others].

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Art Museum, [2021]

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Additional Authors

• Kusserow, Karl
• Braddock, Alan C.
• Coughlin, Maura
• DeLue, Rachael Z.
• Demos, T. J.
• Domínguez Torres, Mónica
• Dunaway, Finis
• Eisenman, Stephen F.
• Gephart, Emily
• Lee, De-nin D.
• Levine, Gregory
• McClintock, Anne
• Nisbet, James
• Patrizio, Andrew
• Ray, Sugata
• Thomas, Greg M.

Description

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.

Subject

• Art and society > History
• Ecocriticism
• Art and society

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: connected / Karl Kusserow -- Extreme attention: the ecological eye in art history / Andrew Patrizio -- Chinese landscape: representations and environmental realities / De-nin D. Lee -- For the birds: Pope Francis, Saint Francis, and ecocritical iconology / Karl Kusserow -- Pearls for the king: Philip II and the New World pearl industry / Mónica Domínguez Torres -- From New Spain to Mughal India: rethinking early modern animal studies with a turkey / Sugata Ray -- Mestizo mnemonics: Diego de Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana, and the earthly art of memory / Alan C. Braddock -- Carved alive: on tree-icons in Japan / Gregory Levine -- Alexander von Humboldt in the anthropocene / Rachael Z. DeLue -- "Ecologic rift" in Ford Madox Brown's work / Stephen F. Eisenman -- Courbet's ecological realism / Greg M. Thomas -- Confluence: painting seawater across the nineteenth-century Atlantic / Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart -- On and off the grid / James Nisbet -- Seeing beyond borders: grassroots visual culture and the struggle to protect the Arctic refuge / Finis Dunaway -- Monster: a fugue in fire and ice / Anne McClintock -- The agency of fire: burning aesthetics / T.J. Demos

Call Number

JQF 22-348

ISBN

• 0691236011
• 9780691236018

LCCN

2021942500

OCLC

1260819034

Title

Picture ecology : art and ecocriticism in planetary perspective / edited by Karl Kusserow ; with contributions by Alan C. Braddock [and 15 others].

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Art Museum, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kusserow, Karl, editor.

Braddock, Alan C., contributor.

Coughlin, Maura, contributor.

DeLue, Rachael Z., contributor.

Demos, T. J., contributor.

Domínguez Torres, Mónica, contributor.

Dunaway, Finis, contributor.

Eisenman, Stephen F., contributor.

Gephart, Emily, contributor.

Lee, De-nin D., contributor.

Levine, Gregory, contributor.

McClintock, Anne, contributor.

Nisbet, James, contributor.

Patrizio, Andrew, contributor.

Ray, Sugata, contributor.

Thomas, Greg M., contributor.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-348