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Methods for ecocritical art history

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An indispensable survey of methods in ecocritical art history.Ecocriticism is one of the most important and exciting developments in current art history. This is the first book to provide a survey ...
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This publication is the first and the only survey of methods of ecocritical analysis in art history. It is an essential reading for anyone interested in understanding why ecocritical art history is a vital nexus for the discipline, and for the environmental humanities. The geographical and chronological range covered in twenty-three essays means this is a state-of-the-discipline snapshot like no other. The essays are framed by a series of editorial introductions that provide orientation within a disciplinary territory that is still in the state of flux, yet already complex. Illustrated in colour and black & white.
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Price: £95.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
ISBN: 9781526180575
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

ART / History / General, History of art, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Research methods: general, History: theory and methods, Applied ecology

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Introducing methods for ecocritical art history – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio

1 Space: the place and the planet
1.0 Introduction: space – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
1.1 Haudenosaunee creation as ecocritical method in Shelley Niro’s La Pieta series – Nyssa Komorowski
1.2 Precious blossom cliff in the slumbering dragons mountains – De-nin D. Lee
1.3 Oikos, or an interface to perceive the world – Peter J. Schneemann
1.4 A view from Hampstead Heath: making the case for an ‘Angloseen’ – Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède

2 Time: periods and timescales
2.0 Introduction: time – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
2.1 Geoaesthetics at the limits of global art history – Sugata Ray
2.2 Weathering art history: metaphor and method – Mark Cheetham
2.3 Interpreting art ecologies of the past – Greg M. Thomas
2.4 J .M. W. Turner’s ecopoetics of steam – Sarah Gould

3 Bodies: ecofeminism and queer ecologies
3.0 Introduction: bodies – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
3.1 Trans-scalar ecologies: planetary feminist storying with art – Marsha Meskimmon
3.2 Tides of care – Jaimey Hamilton Faris
3.3 What the coral reef can teach us about trans liberation – Jeanne Vaccaro

4 Matter: material ecocriticism
4.0 Introduction: matter – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
4.1 Sacrifice zones: visualising dis-placements and material extractions – Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart
4.2 Thinking through boundaries: ecocriticism and medieval art history – Danielle B. Joyner
4.3 ‘The colour of our hearts is the colour of our city’: dimensions of eco-visuality in Nigeria – Frank Ugiomoh
4.4 Ecocriticism at the edges – James Nisbet

5 Beings: multispecies methods
5.0 Introduction: beings – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
5.1 A multispecies framework for art: the bowerbird across disciplines – Nina Amstutz
5.2 Food and caste ecologies in Sajan Mani’s Beef Project – Anisha Palat
5.3 Ecopolitical aesthetics of weeds – Olga Smith
5.4 New visualities: landscape vision and things that do not see – Rachael Z. DeLue

6 Communities: decolonial and Indigenous frameworks
6.0 Introduction: communities – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio
6.1 Keywords for indigenising ecocritical art history – Jessica L. Horton
6.2 Ecology’s spectres and the reorigination of ecocritical art history – Amanda Boetzkes
6.3 Declarations of vulnerability: Ring of Fire – Jeannine Tang
6.4 Ochre and ore: Indigenous ecopoetics in contemporary South African art – Allison K. Young

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