Description: Entranced Earth looks at audiovisual, literary, performative, and testimonial sources to examine the impact of neocolonial extractivist industries on the natural environment in the Western Hemisphere.
Review Quotes:
"A must read for any scholar or graduate student interested in the environmental humanities, Latin American aesthetics, or the concept of landscape. Andermann's close readings are dynamic and immersive . . . His panoramic approach to the Latin American arts makes a valuable methodological contribution that demonstrates the importance of not siloing artworks based on form, region, or historical moment." --Comparative Literature Studies
""Each chapter journeys through different artforms and contexts, amounting to a stimulating exploration of artistic and cultural production. The book is a generous resource for scholars and students of art and ecology in Latin America and beyond." --Postmodern Culture
"A significant contribution to contemporary debates on art, activism, and ecological crisis. By analyzing these issues through the lens of Latin American
responses to the colonial exploitation of territories and cultures, the author offers a profound and necessary intervention into the intersecting fields of art, environmental humanities, and decolonial studies." --Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
"At stake in Andermann's analysis is the relationship between the things that humans create alongside and with nonhumans--from art to cinema to infrastructure--and the survival of our planet. The book will surprise, inspire, and stir students and scholars of Latin American cultural studies, and more broadly environmental humanists, and intellectual and art historians for years to come." --Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
"Iberian colonial expansion was central to the creation of a modern regime of extractivism and its aesthetics, including landscape. Entranced Earth marshals exhaustive research into this legacy to undertake dazzling analyses from a capacious archive of Latin American art and literature: from modernist and regionalist works of the early twentieth century, to prescient environmental art of the 1960s, to contemporary interventions. Entranced Earth compellingly explores the ways that modern and contemporary Latin American aesthetics have been singularly and precociously marked by colonial extraction, but have also forever worked against it, "unlandscaping" and embracing trance--a merging of agent and object--to forge arts of survival amidst planetary crisis. Entranced Earth makes a major contribution to a growing body of work on Latin American aesthetics and the environment." --Rachel Price, author of The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868-1968