The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History

by Andrew Patrizio

In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and orientate an ecological sensibility within the history of art? Building on the latest work in the discipline, this book provides the blueprint for an ‘ecocritical art history’, one that is prepared to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, climate change and global warming. Without ignoring its own histories, the book looks beyond – at politics, posthumanism, new materialism, feminism, queer theory and critical animal studies – invigorating the art-historical practices of the future.

Genres: Art

216 pages, Hardcover

Published December 6, 2018

Reviews

[Imanol Basurto · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
Es un libro de referencia para entrar al debate del ecocriticismo en humanidades y, en específico, la Historia del Arte. Sin embargo, creo que tiene un ritmo demasiado acelerado en función a la ambición del autor, el cual busca aglutinar la mayor cantidad de aproximaciones al problema.
Mis capítulos favoritos fueron Ecologies of feminism and the queer, New materialisms and the wisdom of the rocks y Art histories as a posthumanities practice. Me parecieron los capítulos más sintéticos y claros en relación con los problemas que aborda.

[Lory · Rating 4 out of 5]

read the intro. I didn't really get the perspective centered ecology. But this book gives me some insights about the wide relation between nature materials / eco-politics and art / art history. In a perspective of eco-social cultural construction structure (?). Still I doubt about whether the non-hierachical attemp really works.