International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?

Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change.

This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.

About the Author

T. J. Demos is Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture, and Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz.

Emily Eliza Scott is Assistant Professor of Art History and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.

Subhankar Banerjee is Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Art & Ecology, and Director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, University of New Mexico.

Reviews

"...A stunning achievement. It brings together fifty-five contributors from diverse backgrounds-including the Cherokee Nation, Lebanon, and South Africa-to think through climate-change-themed art and visual culture from regions ranging from Chiapas to Hong Kong. No comparable volume exists."

--Art Journal

"Featuring 40 essays and interviews from over 50 global contributors in a nearly 450 page tome that cohesively reaffirms this approach, the book showcases some of the most crucial thinking in the rapidly growing field of contemporary ecological art. ... This volume offers an array of anti-capitalist, decolonial, and climate justice-based responses to art scholarship, art practice, and visual culture more broadly."

--Antipode

Book Information
ISBN 9780367701161
Author T. J. Demos
Format Paperback
Page Count 492
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 910g