Planetary Realism
Art Against Apocalypse
$55.31
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2025
Summary
Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of “planetarity” to understand a new realism in contemporary art.
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 pla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915609236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915609232 |
| Author: | Josephine Berry |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 156mm x 241mm |
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Josephine Berry
Josephine Berry
Josephine Berry is an art theorist, writer, and political thinker. She has authored works on art within the neoliberal context of creative cities, including No Room to Move: Radical Art in the Regenerate City (2010). Her more recent work, Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Inquiry (Sternberg, 2018), explores the function of autonomous art within contemporary biopower.
Berry is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art in London and lectures at Goldsmiths College. She also served as editor for the London-based cultural politics magazine Mute for over a decade.
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