The Artist as Ecologist: Contemporary Art and the Environment, by Filipa Ramos
The latest book in publisher Lund Humphries’ series New Directions in Contemporary Art explores how artists are responding to the climate crisis. Lecturer and curator Filipa Ramos addresses two parallel strands: approaches to ecology by contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media; and the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice.
An Archive, by Edmund de Waal
The artist and author’s new book explores his fascination with archives, tracing his Jewish family’s journey from Odesa in Ukraine to Paris, encountering fragments of his family archives. The book is concerned with collecting and collections, particularly how objects are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed. It is part of the Ivorypress Archives series.
Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai
A collection of 19th-century portraits designed to shift our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain. The photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays, in-conversation text interventions, lecture transcripts and critical reflections from academics, writers and curators. It is published by Thames & Hudson with Autograph.