Author: Kusserow, Karl (editor)
Title: Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
Description: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, 2021. Softcover. cream illustrated wraps w/ bw & color illustrations, black printing. 303 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. This book brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from eleventh-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's fifteen 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.--Amazon. New/Sealed (in publisher's wrap) .

Keywords: Reference of All Sorts. Ecology, Ecocriticism ; Ecology ; ;


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