Introduction: connected / Karl Kusserow -- Extreme attention: the ecological eye in art history / Andrew Patrizio -- Chinese landscape: representations and environmental realities / De-nin D. Lee -- For the birds: Pope Francis, Saint Francis, and ecocritical iconology / Karl Kusserow -- Pearls for the king: Philip II and the New World pearl industry / Monica Dominguez Torres -- From New Spain to Mughal India: rethinking early modern animal studies with a turkey / Sugata Ray -- Mestizo mnemonics: Diego de Valades, Rhetorica Christiana, and the earthly art of memory / Alan C. Braddock -- Carved alive: on tree-icons in Japan / Gregory Levine -- Alexander von Humboldt in the anthropocene / Rachael Z. DeLue -- "Ecologic rift" in Ford Madox Brown's work / Stephen F. Eisenman -- Courbet's ecological realism / Greg M. Thomas -- Confluence: painting seawater across the nineteenth-century Atlantic / Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart -- On and off the grid / James Nisbet -- Seeing beyond borders: grassroots visual culture and the struggle to protect the Arctic refuge / Finis Dunaway -- Monster: a fugue in fire and ice / Anne McClintock -- The agency of fire: burning aesthetics / T.J. Demos
Summary:
Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 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.
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