Art and Nature

Authors

Marina Vicelja Matijašić (ed)
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Tine Germ (ed)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia
Ivana Prijatelj-Pavičić (ed)
University of Split, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Jelena Erdeljan (ed)
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/9789533610726

Keywords:

art, nature, landscape, land art, environmental art

Synopsis

Art and Nature is an edited collection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students in Humanities and Social Sciences  held online on 8 October 2021. The essays in this volume present various methodologies and ways that visual artists have used throughout centuries to represent, reflect and interact with the natural world. The papers discuss diverse topics such as the pragmatic view of the natural world in the interpretation of nature in various historical periods, artistic contexts and individual artistic opuses.

Chapters

  • Foreword
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  • A Virtual Menagerie Fit for a Ruler
    Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen’s Brazilian Images and Their Role in Dutch Colonial Propaganda
    Julia Czapla
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  • Taming the (Super)Natural
    Negotiating and Appropriating the Powers of Heaven and Hades in Late Medieval Eastern Christian Monasticism
    Jakov Đorđević
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  • Birds, Flowers and Crocodiles
    The Nilotic Pavement in the House of Leontis
    Irene Gilodi
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  • Johann Moritz Rugendas’ Brazil and American Landscapes and Humboldt’s Idea of Nature
    Carla Hermann
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  • Landscapes in Shaping Nordic National Identity through Ephemeral-Perpetual Green Midsummer and White Winter in Romantic Art
    Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja
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  • Toxic Beauty
    Contemporary Art Responding to Industrial Disaster
    Julia Modes
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  • Capitalocene
    Artistic Reflections on Corporate Responsibility for Climate Change
    Hauke Ohls
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  • Breeding and Depicting Chameleons between the Court of Louis XIV and the Port of Livorno
    Silvia Papini
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  • Roger Raveel
    Providing a New Vision of the Complex Rural Landscape
    Senne Schraeyen
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  • “Sacra Natura”: the Representation of Mediterranean Nature in Italian Contemporary Sacred Art
    Sculptures of Pericle Fazzini (1913-1987)
    Roberta Serra
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  • The Material and Symbolic Potential of Nature in Britain since the 1960s
    Cybill Whalley
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September 29, 2022

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How to Cite

Vicelja Matijašić, M., Germ, T., Prijatelj-Pavičić, I., & Erdeljan, J. (Eds.). (2022). Art and Nature. University of Ljubljana Press. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789533610726