Included as one of the influences on his powerful film True North, the book appears in a display case alongside works exploring race, sexuality, and polar exploration.
Look out for my catalogue essay:
“Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North.”
This is Julien’s first US retrospective and his largest to date—don't miss it!
de Young Museum, SF
April 12–July 13, 2025
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or my talk, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. I’ll be presenting from my book, with a small reception to follow.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required — scan the QR code on the poster to RSVP.
Hope to see you there and feel free to share widely!
“An aesthetic antidote to older ideologies, imagining the poles otherwise... [The book] offers politically thoughtful perspectives from feminist, Black, and Indigenous artists like Anne Noble, Isaac Julien, and Zacharias Kunuk.” – Robert Bailey & Pete Froslie
The article is titled “Jewish ‘Ghosts’: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory,” eds., Stacy Schwartz, and Dereck Conrad Murray.
Open access, 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/50
See "Foreword.” Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jurgens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. v.
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom (review)
Jenna M. Coughlin Scandinavian Studies, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2023, pp. 540-543 (Article)
Published by University of Illinois Press
In Moving Image Review & Art Journal, volume 12 (2023), issue 1, pp. 9-21.
“Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene.” A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. Editors, Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson; A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. London: Wiley Blackwell (2023), pp. 227-238
For the table of contents and introduction see: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Companion_to_Contemporary_Art_in_a_Glo/Ci3bEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA3&printsec=frontcover
For purchase. E-Book is available at just $36.99: https://www.wiley.com/en-cn/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Art+in+a+Global+Framework-p-9781119841807
I am excited that I will be giving an online book talk with the installation artist Judit Hersko who is one of the artists I write about in my book and the environmental humanities scholar Cheryl J. Fish on November 15th! You are invited to attend! It is for a month-long environmental humanities initiative in Helsinki, Finland.
(Click poster at left to enlarge).
Listen to the recording of the session here
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