Excited to share this wonderful review of my book “Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic” in the College Art Association’s online Book Review section!

I have a new article that just came out on open access for a special issue of Arts13, “New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics”

See the foreword that I wrote for an exciting new book that came out recently

Review by Jenna M. Coughlin, Scandinavian Studies

“Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age of accelerated climate change: The Arctic artworks of Katja Aglert and Isaac Julien”

I have a new article that just came out in a wonderful new anthology that offers a wide range of perspectives on art since 1980.

“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

This is big news! The open access version of my book is now available for download

Online book talk with the installation artist Judit Hersko and the environmental humanities scholar Cheryl J. Fish, Nov. 15

Reviews and Quotes: More Book Reviews Addressing a Wider International Audience

The book is starting to get some more international attention thanks in part to Anne Hemendrias’ review in Germany, Alice Oates review in the UK, Barbara Opar’s review in North America, Elizabeth Berman’s review in the UK (See PDF since the link reaches a paywall and doesn’t show the entire review), and Jean Bundy’s book review for the Association Interartnationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA), Paromita Patranobish’s review in the latest issue of the Journal of Ecohumanism and Isabelle Gapp's review in Art History.

Quotes from these four authors

Alice Oates’ from Cambridge University in H-Environment: “This is a book capable of expanding a reader’s understanding whether they are drawn to it from the worlds of art, activism, critical scholarship, or some combination thereof. Connecting what is often separated, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics is a vital read for artists, activists, and academics alike.”

https://networks.h-net.org/node/19397/reviews/12571148/oates-bloom-climate-change-and-new-polar-aesthetics-artists

Barbara Ann Opar writes in her review for the Arts Libraries Society of North America: “Bloom’s scholarship makes an important contribution to the literature for institutions with graduate programs and/or libraries which aim to include diverse views of the global environmental crisis.”

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:51740/datastreams/CONTENT/content?download=true

Paromita Patranobish writes in her review for the Journal of Ecohumanism: “The “justice-attentive aesthetic research practices” (p. 5) in Bloom’s book(chapters 4 and 5 co-written with Elena Glasberg) respond to the violence of visual foreclosure by foregrounding new ways of imagining contested spaces, highlighting industrial capitalist deployments of polar topographies that remain absent from representational parlance, and creating unconventional juxtapositions, continuities, and collaborations.”

https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/article/view/2943?fbclid=IwAR1Id1nICrHe3QqcPICo6yIvwdnUAeBOcxv_vtgS3DqAv0h29Wzjsldjj7Y

Isabelle Gapp writes in her review for Art History: “In Lisa E. Bloom's ambitious work, ‘Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics,’ readers are taken on a captivating journey into the world of contemporary art that responds to the urgent issues of climate change, offering fresh perspectives and thought-provoking insights into the Arctic and Antarctic regions.”

I am thrilled to share that I have been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the prestigious “Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights & Justice” conference.