Marking the publication of Methods for Ecocritical Art History, edited by Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio, this panel explores what an ecocritical approach can offer art historians, and what the interdisciplinary project of ecocriticism stands to gain from art historians, their methods and practices.
Organised as part of the Research Cluster Art, Ecologies, Infrastructures, led by Lucy Bradnock and Wenny Teo.
Speakers:
Lucy Bradnock (chair) is Reader of Modern and Contemporary art and Dean for Research at the Courtauld, where she leads the MA special option American Art in the Age of Ecology, and is also editor of the journal Art History.
Charlotte Klonk is Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
Andrew Patrizio is Professor of Scottish Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. His work, in two main areas – Scottish art since 1945, and on art, ecology and the environment – is informed by close engagement with art practice, from collaboration, commissioning and writing.
Olga Smith is a NUAcT Fellow in Fine Art at Newcastle University. International trajectory of her research spans topics such as ecocriticism and landscape, interchanges between art and intellectual ideas, transnational identity, and histories of photography.
