Event overview
This event is part of Art History Festival 2025 organised by the Association for Art History.
This lecture explores art historical determinations of Paradise, its loss, and genealogies of geopower. Historical ideas of biology, creativity, and environmental psychology are compared to more recent critical engagements.
With the concepts of “natural beauty” and “pathetic fallacy” of Emerson and Ruskin, we ask whether there is a place for Romanticist views today and, if so, what form they might take and to what end.
Accordingly, the order and complexity of Rudolf Arnheim’s garden aesthetics of East and West are considered alongside artworks that extend from the bucolic to the sublime, from Impressionism to Fauvism, as well as from Carolyn Merchant’s eco-feminist critique and Kathryn Yusoff’s decolonial critique of the wilderness/civilisation dichotomy in our new epoch, the Anthropocene.
Dr Wood Roberdeau (Senior Lecturer, Visual Cultures) explores modes of everyday experience through philosophical post-humanism to ask how a poetics of space and place might resonate with climate change and futurity. He is particularly interested in questions concerning cultural production and reception in times of climate crisis and activism that explore a poetics of encounter, observation, and participation.
Image credit: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 Designed by Peter Zumthor, Photograph © 2011 Walter Herfst.
Online attendance via Zoom Webinar:
Meeting ID 925 7363 6098
Passcode 568828
Invite Link https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92573636098?pwd=XSAWFLAjJDDTkIKyhWr3ZQV0F9YF7p.1
Association for Art History Festival 2025
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2025 | 10:00am - 11:00am |
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