Oceans by Pandora Syperek - ISBN: 9780262545341
Paperback
Explore art where human & ocean intertwine amidst climate change.

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    25 July 2023

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Summary

Oceans attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture.

Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat, and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfolds. Artists have envisioned the sea as a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545341
ISBN-10:0262545349
Author:Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:25 July 2023
Weight:601g
Dimensions:211mm x 149mm x 30mm
Series:Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
About The Author

Pandora Syperek

Pandora Syperek is a writer and art historian who researches the intersections of art and science, gender and the nonhuman within cultures of display. She is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Loughborough University London and Visiting Fellow at the V&A Research Institute.

Sarah Wade is an art historian and Lecturer in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia. Her research examines human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art and exhibitions, particularly in relation to ecological concerns.

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