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oapen-20.500.12657-636602023-06-23T04:21:03Z Decolonial Ecologies Page, Joanna contemporary artists;Latin America;collecting nature;organizing nature;displaying nature;new aesthetic;political perspectives bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTR National liberation & independence, post-colonialism bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues::ABA Theory of art bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought & ideology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present. Page brings together an entirely new corpus of artistic projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the medieval bestiary, baroque cabinets of curiosities, atlases created by European travellers to the New World, the floras and herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists, and the dioramas designed for natural history museums. She explores how artists develop decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspectives on the collections and expeditions that were central to the evolution of European natural history. Their works forge a critique of the rationalizing approach to nature taken by modern Western science, reconnecting it with forms of popular, indigenous and spiritual knowledge and experience that it has systematically excluded since the Enlightenment. Drawing on photography, video, illustration, sculpture, and installation, this vividly illustrated and lucidly written book (also available in premium quality in hardback edition) explores how these artworks might also deconstruct the apocalyptic visions of environmental change that often dominate Western thought, developing a renewed understanding of alternative ways in which humans might co-inhabit the natural world. 2023-06-22T10:03:09Z 2023-06-22T10:03:09Z 2023 book 9781800649736 9781800649743 9781800649798 9781800649781 9781800649767 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63660 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800649750.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0339 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0339 10.11647/OBP.0339 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781800649736 9781800649743 9781800649798 9781800649781 9781800649767 ScholarLed 298 Cambridge open access
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In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.
Page brings together an entirely new corpus of artistic projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the medieval bestiary, baroque cabinets of curiosities, atlases created by European travellers to the New World, the floras and herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists, and the dioramas designed for natural history museums. She explores how artists develop decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspectives on the collections and expeditions that were central to the evolution of European natural history. Their works forge a critique of the rationalizing approach to nature taken by modern Western science, reconnecting it with forms of popular, indigenous and spiritual knowledge and experience that it has systematically excluded since the Enlightenment.
Drawing on photography, video, illustration, sculpture, and installation, this vividly illustrated and lucidly written book (also available in premium quality in hardback edition) explores how these artworks might also deconstruct the apocalyptic visions of environmental change that often dominate Western thought, developing a renewed understanding of alternative ways in which humans might co-inhabit the natural world.
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