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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg . More
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 2 Colourful paintings, which often resemble doorways, mark the entrance to an indoor hive. Natural beekeepers often believe this facilitates orientation. Photo by Kelsey Green. More
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 235–253.
Published: 01 March 2025
.... Caycedo and Sierra take up the formal elements of this tradition but put them into crisis. They depict landscapes of Colombian territories affected by energy production. Sierra uses coal to paint the landscape affected by mining, while Caycedo prints a satellite photograph of a river altered by a dam...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Jeremy Elliott [email protected] © 2024 Jeremy Elliott 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The bluff on the north bank of the Concho River in Paint Rock, Texas, is home to around a thousand Indigenous...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 203–217.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Its aesthetic made its way into Europe, where Claude Monet, who became a fervent collector of Hokusai's woodblocks, created his 1865 painting, “The Green Wave,” in direct homage. Monet, like many others in the tradition of wave painting, was fascinated by how the materiality of different sorts...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 110–128.
Published: 01 March 2022
... paint a fuller picture of our cultural relationships to nature. It may also explain the obstacles to addressing crucial environmental issues on a societal level, because deep-seated sensibilities around nature stem from narratives that do not neatly align with the lessons of ecological science...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2012
... annually for many years, including 2007 and 2008, when she had begun a series of suites of paintings “4 × 4s”, naming the suites for the 4-wheel drive vehicles one needs to travel across this country of dunes and sand ridges. In 2007 and 2008, it was dry country at the end of a decade of drought. I joined...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 590–602.
Published: 01 November 2024
... , 135–38 ; Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia,” 23 . 70. Deleuze and Guattari, Thousand Plateaus , 311 ; Bogue, Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts , 23 . 71. Moten, Stolen Life , 163 . 72. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas , 257 . 73. Whitehead...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., or any other US city and you’re bound to see countless people with paper wings on their backs, daubed with the monarch’s tell-tale markings in orange and black ( fig. 2 ). Monarchs were painted all over the “Undocubus” that undocumented students, day laborers, and domestic workers took across the country...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 494–498.
Published: 01 July 2022
...: it involves a force in excess of sentiments, emotions, or feelings. It is a prompt from outside, from a farmed salmon or boreal plant or a painted border wall, which strikes and impresses. It seems that in a world of vibrant matter, the efforts composing the event of enchantment are multiple and multi-specied...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 402–426.
Published: 01 November 2019
... frequently remark about the “threat of rain” or impending precipitation, a narrative tic that betrays a growing awareness of their residence in a sacrificial landscape. 50 When Lace visits friends in a nearby community ravaged by floods and dynamite blasts, she describes it as a “beautiful painting...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 132–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... media, including video, sculpture, painting, and photography. This tendency in art is not surprising, given that Caribbean literature and cultural practices have long engaged with a materialist sea as both dystopian origin and aquatopian future. Thus, the ocean is a space of origins of the transatlantic...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 346–369.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the Scottish landscape: Victorian paintings and taxidermy, folklore of great cats that wandered the Highlands, and place names still present on maps ( Creag a’ chait —cat rock; Caithness— cat headland). These historic materialities of wildcats found within the landscape are productive of memory that both...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 280–301.
Published: 01 November 2019
... . 26. Hilton, John Ruskin , 579–80 . 27. The relationship between Ruskin’s sketch and Severn’s paintings, especially Sunset (1887), is too close to be coincidental. See www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=232283 . 28. Latour, Politics of Nature , 33 . 29. Böhme...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 459–469.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that taggers use the term “pissing” to refer to the use of a fire extinguisher filled with paint to spray their signature. Importantly in Malfeasance Serres distinguishes “hard” and “soft” pollution. Each generates the other. The former is, for instance, the solid waste, liquids, and gases released...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... The painting is of a young boy who is holding a pipe and bowl and gazing up at a colored bubble floating overhead. On the subsequent page, Sloterdijk refers to the child at the beginning of his book and in the painting as a “little wizard,” and his metaphor invites us to understand the primary action...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the digitisation process, in a blog entry narrating her discovery of a series of letters concerning the painting of a famous portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker. However, the letters from Boott illustrate—once again—what interesting nuggets of historical information lie buried within Kew's Directors...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
... disappointment when she learned that he painted abstracts: “What a pity. If I could paint, I would want to paint things. I love the thinginess of things.” 17 This concern is partly perhaps why she gravitated toward the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, 18 who also aspired to the real, albeit through...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
...' figural economy moves beyond political critique. In pursuing the film's figurations, one of the most striking images of Badlands' figural economy is the big billboard that Mr. Sargis, Holly's father (Warren Oates) is painting in the vastness and nothingness of its surroundings. In the scene...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg . ...
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