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Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)

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 persp...

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Main Author: Joanna Page
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25982095.v1
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description 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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spelling rr-article-259820952023-06-14T00:00:00Z Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF) Joanna Page (18775192) collecting nature contemporary artists displaying nature Latin America new aesthetic organizing nature political perspectives 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. 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z text Monograph 2134/25982095.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/monograph/Decolonial_Ecologies_The_Reinvention_of_Natural_History_in_Latin_American_Art_PDF_/25982095 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)
title Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)
title_full Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)
title_fullStr Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)
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title_short Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (PDF)
title_sort decolonial ecologies: the reinvention of natural history in latin american art (pdf)
topic collecting nature
contemporary artists
displaying nature
Latin America
new aesthetic
organizing nature
political perspectives
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25982095.v1