Bloom Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1864-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic use their art to illustrate our current environmental crises and to reconstruct public understanding of them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloom, Lisa E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. From the Heroic Sublime to Environments of Global Decline 1
I. Disappearing Landscapes: Feminist, Inuit, and Black Viewpoints
1. Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in Intersectional Feminist Art Practices 25
2. Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives 54
3. At Memory's Edge: Collaborative Perspectives on Climate Trauma in Arctic Cinema 85
II. Archives of Knowledge and Loss
4. What is Unseen and Missing in the Circumpolar North: Contemporary Art and Indigenous Collaborative Approaches / Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg 105
5. Viewers as Citizen Scientists: Archiving Detritus / Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg 130
III. Climate Art and the Future of Art and Dissent
6. The Logic of Oil and Ice: Reimagining Documentary Cinema in the Capitalocene 153
7. Critical Polar Art Leads to Social Activism: Beyond the Disengaged Gaze 176
Epilogue. Seeing From the Future 195
Notes 201
Filmography 229
Bibliography 235
Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa E. Bloom is Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group in the Department of Gender and Women’s studies, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. Two of the book’s chapters were written with Elena Glasberg, who is the author of Antarctica as Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change.