Methods for Ecocritical Art History

Andrew Patrizio is Professor of Scottish Visual Culture at the University of EdinburghOlga Smith is a NUAcT Fellow in Fine Art at Newcastle University

• Introducing methods for ecocritical art history – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio1 Space: the place and the planet1.0 Introduction: space – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio1.1 Haudenosaunee creation as ecocritical method in Shelley Niro’s La Pieta series – Nyssa Komorowski1.2 Precious blossom cliff in the slumbering dragons mountains – De-nin D. Lee1.3 Oikos, or an interface to perceive the world – Peter J. Schneemann1.4 A view from Hampstead Heath: making the case for an ‘Angloseen’ – Charlotte Gould and Sophie Mesplède2 Time: periods and timescales2.0 Introduction: time – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio2.1 Geoaesthetics at the limits of global art history – Sugata Ray2.2 Weathering art history: metaphor and method – Mark Cheetham2.3 Interpreting art ecologies of the past – Greg M. Thomas2.4 J .M. W. Turner’s ecopoetics of steam – Sarah Gould3 Bodies: ecofeminism and queer ecologies3.0 Introduction: bodies – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio3.1 Trans-scalar ecologies: planetary feminist storying with art – Marsha Meskimmon3.2 Tides of care – Jaimey Hamilton Faris3.3 What the coral reef can teach us about trans liberation – Jeanne Vaccaro4 Matter: material ecocriticism4.0 Introduction: matter – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio4.1 Sacrifice zones: visualising dis-placements and material extractions – Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart4.2 Thinking through boundaries: ecocriticism and medieval art history – Danielle B. Joyner4.3 ‘The colour of our hearts is the colour of our city’: dimensions of eco-visuality in Nigeria – Frank Ugiomoh4.4 Ecocriticism at the edges – James Nisbet5 Beings: multispecies methods5.0 Introduction: beings – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio5.1 A multispecies framework for art: the bowerbird across disciplines – Nina Amstutz5.2 Food and caste ecologies in Sajan Mani’s Beef Project – Anisha Palat5.3 Ecopolitical aesthetics of weeds – Olga Smith5.4 New visualities: landscape vision and things that do not see – Rachael Z. DeLue6 Communities: decolonial and Indigenous frameworks6.0 Introduction: communities – Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio6.1 Keywords for indigenising ecocritical art history – Jessica L. Horton6.2 Ecology’s spectres and the reorigination of ecocritical art history – Amanda Boetzkes6.3 Declarations of vulnerability: Ring of Fire – Jeannine Tang6.4 Ochre and ore: Indigenous ecopoetics in contemporary South African art – Allison K. YoungIndex