British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges, and Responses Since the Industrial Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367566487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 244 str.

Charlotte Gould; Sophie Mesplède

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This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

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PART 1  From the Claude Glass to Drones: Framing Environmental Encounters  1 Vehicles of Truth: Portable Studios and Nineteenth-Century British Landscape Painting, 1856–1885  2 Painting Fog: James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Blurred Visions of the London Atmosphere  3 Aerial Ontologies  4 An Interview with Tim Martin  PART 2  Areas of Outstanding Industrial Beauty? A Layered History of Reappropriation and Profitability  5 "It’s Grim Up North": Depicting Mutations and Shifting Perceptions of Industrial Landscapes in the North of England  6 "Our Oil": Our Waves? Environment, Energy Transition, and Art in Twenty-First-Century Scotland  7 Managing Arcadia: From the King’s Cross Estate to the Bretton Estate  8 An Interview with Adrian George  PART 3  Decentering Human Vision: Art in a Shared Environment  9 Pursuing Natural Beauty: The Artist as a Hunter in Eighteenth-Century British Art  10 "A New and Unforeseen Creation": Turner, English Landscape, and the Anthropo(s)cene  11 The Human Landscape: John Ruskin, Drawing, and Colour  12 A Matter of Time: Transformative Sculptures by Marc Quinn, Zuzanna Janin, Anya Gallaccio, and Andy Goldsworthy  13 Brexit, Gender, and Northern Ireland’s Supernatural Landscape: Ursula Burke’s "A False Dawn" and Candida Powell-Williams’ "Command Lines"