Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity’s relationship to the planet, nineteenth-century artists and writers began to express a novel perception of humanity’s place in, and impact on, the natural world. This essential volume traces, in art and literature, the growing understanding of the industrial world’s ...