Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes

Lisa Bloom, a CSW Research Scholar, presents some work from her current book project in “Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes.” Bloom received a CSW Tillie Olsen Grant to support her research, which examines Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Expl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Lisa
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
Subjects:
Arts and Humanities
environmentalism
climate change
Anthropocene
feminist art
Judit Hersko
Antarctic
ocean
Antarctic Ocean
Antarc*
Online Access:http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx8m9gb
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Summary:Lisa Bloom, a CSW Research Scholar, presents some work from her current book project in “Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes.” Bloom received a CSW Tillie Olsen Grant to support her research, which examines Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer,” a project that addresses climate change and notions of heroic exploration by creating a fictional narrative of a woman polar explorer in 1930s.

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