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"This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists' engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies which reconsider the nature-culture divide and aim at identifying the contours of a national narrative which stretches from enclosed lands to rising seas. By adopting a longer historical view, this book hopes to enrich current debates concerning art's engagement with recording and questioning the impact of human activity on the environment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental humanities, and British studies"--

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies that reconsider the nature–culture divide and aim at identifying the contours of a national narrative that stretches from enclosed lands to rising seas. By adopting a longer historical view, this book hopes to enrich current debates concerning art’s engagement with recording and questioning the impact of human activity on the environment.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental humanities, and British studies.



This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

List of Figures
vii
List of Contributors
ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(24)
Charlotte Gould
Sophie Mesplede
PART 1 From the Claude Glass to Drones: Framing Environmental Encounters
25(62)
1 Vehicles of Truth: Portable Studios and Nineteenth-Century British Landscape Painting, 1856--1885
27(16)
Amy C. Wallace
2 Painting Fog: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Blurred Visions of the London Atmosphere
43(15)
Laura Valette
3 Aerial Ontologies
58(18)
Paul Cureton
4 An Interview with Tim Martin
76(11)
Charlotte Gould
Sophie Mesplede
PART 2 Areas of Outstanding Industrial Beauty? A Layered History of Re appropriation and Profitability
87(58)
5 "It's Grim Up North": Depicting Mutations and Shifting Perceptions of Industrial Landscapes in the North of England
89(19)
Aurore Caignet
6 "Our Oil": Our Waves? Environment, Energy Transition, and Art in Twenty-First-Century Scotland
108(11)
Camille Manfredi
7 Managing Arcadia: From the King's Cross Estate to the Bretton Estate
119(17)
Pat Naldi
8 An Interview with Adrian George
136(9)
Charlotte Gould
Sophie Mesplede
PART 3 Decentering Human Vision: Art in a Shared Environment
145(85)
9 Pursuing Natural Beauty: The Artist as a Hunter in Eighteenth-Century British Art
147(19)
Sophie Mesplede
10 "A New and Unforeseen Creation": Turner, English Landscape, and the Anthropo(s)cene
166(16)
Frederic Ogee
11 The Human Landscape: John Ruskin, Drawing, and Colour
182(16)
Thomas Hughes
12 A Matter of Time: Transformative Sculptures by Marc Quinn, Zuzanna Janin, Anya Gallaccio, and Andy Goldsworthy
198(15)
Kasia Ozga
13 Brexit, Gender, and Northern Ireland's Supernatural Landscape: Ursula Burke's "A False Dawn" and Candida Powell-Williams' "Command Lines"
213(17)
Edwin Coomasaru
Afterword 230(6)
Stephen Daniels
Index 236
Charlotte Gould is Senior Lecturer in British contemporary art at Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.

Sophie Mesplède is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth-century British art at the University of Rennes 2, France.