Entranced Earth Volume 45: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape (FlashPoints) - Softcover

Jens Andermann (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810145928 ISBN 13: 9780810145924

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2023

Synopsis

A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present

Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin American art, literature, music, and film, Jens Andermann asks what emerges at the other end of landscape. Art in the Global South has long represented and interrogated “insurgent nature”—organic and inorganic matter, human and nonhuman life, thrown into turmoil.

In Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape, Andermann traces the impact of despaisamiento—world-destroying un-landscaping—throughout the Latin American modernist archive. At the same time, he explores innovative, resilient modes of allyship forged between diverse actors through their shared experiences of destruction. From the literary regionalism of the 1930s to contemporary bio art, from modernist garden architecture to representations of migration and displacement in sound art and film, Entranced Earth tracks the crisis of landscape and environmental exhaustion beyond despair toward speculative, experimental forms of survival.

About this title

About the Author

Jens Andermann is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. His books include New Argentine Cinema and The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810145928
• ISBN 13: 9780810145924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304