Back to the Marshes

Myth, Method, Matter
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-68924-085-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

is the final volume in Barbara Baert’s tripartite study on the cultural impact of weather and environment, on the artistic symptoms of fertility and anxiety, and on the study of matter and medium. The series includes (2019) and (2022). In this essay Baert explores the cosmological imagination, prehistoric graphemes, and the sensory experiences of marshes and wetlands, including their artistic significance for raw and biological materials such as clay, mud and fungi.

develops into a fluid voyage of discovery that charts the role of material topologies and their artistic properties in human hands, and reflects on the obstacles accompanying the writing process and the epistemological crises it precipitated during the author’s residency at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. It leads Baert to reconsider the contemporary challenges of in the Geological Turn.

• A multidisciplinary and cross-sectional analysis of the swamp
• Interdisciplinary approaches from art, culture and the history of ideas

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baert, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at the KU Leuven. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and is deeply sensitive to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts. Baert is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Belgian Francqui Prize for Human Sciences in 2016.