A study of the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual
culture, geography, and environmental politics.
While ecology has received little systematic attention within art
history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the
threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging
artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with
environmental conditions and processes around the globe--and looking at
cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the
Global South and North--Decolonizing Nature offers a significant,
original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history,
ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art
historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of
Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), considers the creative
proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together
ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a
time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.