Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art - Hardcover

Eshun, Ekow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500028788 ISBN 13: 9780500028780

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

A vibrant contemporary art anthology that explores the complex ties between race, climate crisis and colonialism by 100 leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity

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About the Author

Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator, journalist and broadcaster based in London, whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and Vogue. Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2005 to 2010, and a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programmes, his previous books include The Strangers: Five Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them, published in 2024, and In the Black Fantastic, published in 2022.

From the Back Cover

Featuring strikingly lyrical contributions by Black, Latin American, and Native American artists, Black Earth Rising assembles over 200 contemporary artworks that explore the complex ties between colonialism and the climate crisis--and in so doing, dramatically expands visual narratives on climate change. Taking as its origin the forced migration of people and early networks of commerce that reshaped lives and landscapes globally after European arrival in the Americas, the book offers an urgent reframing of climate discourse that places people of color at the center of the debate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500028788
• ISBN 13: 9780500028780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240