Planetary Realism
Josephine Berry
CONDITION & NOTES | |
New |
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TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
Softcover |
2025 |
EDITION | LANGUAGE |
First |
English |
PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
Sternberg Press | 24.5 x 16 x 2 cm |
New
TYPE
Softcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
2025
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
Sternberg Press
DIMENSIONS
24.5 x 16 x 2 cm
ABOUT
When the Anthropocene creates a new real, how do artists respond? The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society's divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see—and feel—the planet? Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art's power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists' urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art's necessary reimagining of life on Earth.