{"product_id":"climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics-9781478023241","title":"Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni Horn, Isaac Julien, Zacharias Kunuk, Connie Samaras, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. In their films and visual and conceptual art, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom's examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ever since the publication of \u003ci\u003eGender on Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa E. Bloom has been one of the most innovative scholars in the field of polar aesthetics and the cultural history of the polar regions. Working with an array of creative art practices, Bloom demonstrates how new ways of feeling, seeing, and thinking are integral to the current and future social, environmental, and geopolitical predicament. This is a book for dark times, but it is hopeful, resilient, and socially just.” -- Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive and fascinating study which prompts further critical discussions in the field of polar art. The book is a must-read for any scholar interested in the aesthetics of climate change and will have a lasting impact within the field of Environmental Humanities.\" -- Anne Hemkendreis * ArtHist.net *\u003cbr\u003e“Lisa Bloom’s \u003ci\u003eClimate Change and the New Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e integrates text with imagery to highlight problems, not isolated to one location or a particular ethnicity. . . . Close scrutiny of artworks which contextualize Climate Change brings problems and hopefully solutions to the forefront without verbally scolding.” -- Jean Bundy * AICA E-MAG *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book capable of expanding a reader’s understanding whether they are drawn to it from the worlds of art, activism, critical scholarship, or some combination thereof. Connecting what is often separated, \u003ci\u003eClimate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital read for artists, activists, and academics alike.” -- Alice Oates * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]hrough well-chosen examples, understandable text, an extensive bibliography, and detailed footnotes, Bloom’s scholarship makes an important contribution to the literature for institutions with graduate programs and\/or libraries which aim to include diverse views of the global environmental crisis.\" -- Barbara Ann Opar * ARLIS-NA *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eClimate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e marks an important intervention in aesthetic and environmental criticism. The book contributes to a growing body of scholarship that engages with climate change not merely as an ethical injunction but as an unavoidable facet of contemporary life.\" -- Elizabeth Berman * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. From the Heroic Sublime to Environments of Global Decline  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Disappearing Landscapes: Feminist, Inuit, and Black Viewpoints\u003cbr\u003e 1. Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in Intersectional Feminist Art Practices  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives  54\u003cbr\u003e 3. At Memory's Edge: Collaborative Perspectives on Climate Trauma in Arctic Cinema  85\u003cbr\u003e II. Archives of Knowledge and Loss\u003cbr\u003e 4. What is Unseen and Missing in the Circumpolar North: Contemporary Art and Indigenous Collaborative Approaches \/ Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg  105\u003cbr\u003e 5. Viewers as Citizen Scientists: Archiving Detritus \/ Lisa E. Bloom and Elena Glasberg 130\u003cbr\u003e III. Climate Art and the Future of Art and Dissent\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Logic of Oil and Ice: Reimagining Documentary Cinema in the Capitalocene  153\u003cbr\u003e 7. Critical Polar Art Leads to Social Activism: Beyond the Disengaged Gaze  176\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Seeing From the Future  195\u003cbr\u003e Notes  201\u003cbr\u003e Filmography  229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  235\u003cbr\u003e Index  253","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409016201559,"sku":"9781478023241","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478023241.jpg?v=1730505105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics-9781478023241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}