Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics

by Susan Ballard

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable--turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya, J...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367349396
• ISBN13: 9780367349394
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages