Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse - Josephine Berry

Name: Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse - Josephine Berry
Brand: Sternberg Press
SKU: 9781915609236
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Sternberg Press

$27.95

Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse by Josephine Berry / 232-page paperback, 6.13 x 9.5 inches, published in 2025 by Sternberg Press / ISBN 9781915609236

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Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.

The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see—and feel—the planet?

Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth.