
Anthropocene Fatigue: Edward Burtynsky’s Strategy of Collapse — Bénédicte Ramade
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Authors: Bénédicte Ramade | Artists: Edward Burtynsky
[Summer 2019] By Bénédicte Ramade [Excerpt] From the start it seems taken for granted: Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene at the National Gallery of Canada will be technophilic.1 At every opportunity. Even as stratigraphers are still discussing the contours of this geological epoch attributed to human activity, still bitterly arguing over the relevance of the very word […]