Winner, Canadian Museum Association Award for Research in ArtA controversial idea currently under vigorous and passionate international debate that would recognize the human signature on the planet.Anthropocene is the latest book by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier to chronicle the massive and irreversible impact of humans on the Earth -- on a geological scale.In photographs that are both stunning and disconcerting, Burtynsky, Baichwal, and de Pencier document species extinction (the burning of elephant tusks to disrupt the illegal trade of ivory), technofossils (swathes of discarded plastic forming geological layers), and terraforming (mines and industrial agriculture).The book also features a range of essays by artists, curators, and scientists, some part of an international group of scientists who have proposed that the Earth is now entering a new era of geological time where human activity is the driving force behind environmental and geological change -- i.e. the Anthropocene. Thus the book brings contemporary art into conversation with environmental science and anthropology on a topic that urgently affects all of us.Anthropocene was published to coincide with a major international exhibition that opened simultaneously in September 2018 at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada and the release of a film on the same topic by Baichwal and de Pencier.
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Weight: 902g
Dimensions: 171 x 234mm
Publication Date: 12 Dec 2023
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Publication City/Country: Canada
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781773100975
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Sophie Hackett is a curator of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Andrea Kunard taught for over a decade at Carleton University Queen's University and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University. As associate curator at the National Gallery of Canada Kunard explores the intersections of contemporary and historical issues in Canadian photography focusing on cultural uses of the medium and its capacity to challenge and reconfigure accepted understandings of the public and private subjectivity memory and knowledge. She has curated numerous exhibition for the National Gallery and Library and Archives Canada. Kunard is the co-editor of The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada. She has also written articles on contemporary and historical photography in The Journal of Canadian Art History the International Journal of Canadian Studies and Early Popular Visual Culture. Urs Stahel is the director curator and editor of Fotomuseum Winterthur.