Branching Out

Botanical Metaphors and Worlding Art History from the ‘Tropics’

Miriam Oesterreich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

V, 82 Seiten

2025
ICI Berlin Press (Verlag)
9783965580732 (ISBN)

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This chapbook examines the aestheticization of plants in colonial discourses and charts visualizations of art histories that use the tree as a metaphor. In doing so, Miriam Oesterreich considers how ‘tropicalized’ tree forms have been reappropriated to portray a more ‘worlded’ art history. In the mid-twentieth century, prominent visual artists including Miguel Covarrubias, Alfred Barr, and Ad Reinhardt featured trees of art as canonizing illustrations of Western art history. Using Pablo León de la Barra’s poster Diagrama Tropical/Nova Cartografia Tropical (2010) as a starting point Branching Out discusses works by contemporary artists from Latin America and the Caribbean to look at the subversive potential in reimagining plant images and metaphors.

Diagrama Tropical
Tropicality in the Arts and Visual Culture
Visual Histories of Evolution
Family Trees of Art
Tropicalizing the Tree of Art: ‘Worlding’ Practices
A Subversive Re-thinking of Art History through Tropicality
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Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Worlding Public Cultures
Zusatzinfo	Colour Images
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte	art canon • Art Historiography • colonial aesthetics • Decolonization • epistemologies • global South • tree diagram • tropicalisation • worlding
ISBN-13	9783965580732 / 9783965580732
Zustand	Neuware