Description
Book SynopsisIn the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the blurred boundaries between nature and the human. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and BjÃrk.
Table of ContentsList of Color Plates
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate
Change and Nature in Art
GRY HEDIN & ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD
PART I
Interaction between Art and Science
1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780– 1840
GRY HEDIN
2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic through
Artistic Research
EVA LA COUR
PART II
Changing Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North
3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View
MARK A. CHEETHAM
4 "We All Have to Live By What We Know": Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change
NORMAN VORANO
PART III
Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human
5 Conversations between Body, Tree and Camera in the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila
KATARINA WADSTEIN MACLEOD
6 Toril Johannessen’s In Search of Iceland Spar: Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene
SYNNØVE MARIE VIK
7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk’s Biophilia Album
ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD
Bibliography 156
Index 169
