Jim Naughten

Name: Jim Naughten
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SKU: 9783775753869
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Eremozoic

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Jim Naughten presents digital reimaginings inspired by natural history museum dioramas, depicting a vibrant yet alien world of wildlife. His artwork features unusual scenes, like orangutans in psychedelic forests and deer in pastel canyons, using artificial colour palettes to evoke a feeling of disconnection and estrangement from nature. These fantastical images challenge our nostalgic and often idealised views of the natural world, highlighting the reality of the Eremozoic—the current era marked by mass extinction and isolation of species due to human impact.
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Format: Hardback

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This book will appeal to art lovers, those interested in environmental themes, and readers fascinated by the intersection of wildlife, digital art, and ecological reflection.

Description

Inspired by dioramas of wild flora and fauna found in natural history museums, Jim Naughten's digital reimaginations of a familiar yet alien world explore the idea of wildlife becoming a lost fantasy. From orangutans swinging through psychedelic forests, to deer roaming pastel-hued canyons, Naughten's depictions of nature in an artificial colour palette convey a distinct sense of dislocation and growing estrangement.

His fantastical tableaus question our rose-tinted image of the natural world that is largely fictional. In fact, we are entering the Eremozoic—a term coined by biologist and writer E. O. Wilson to describe the current era of mass extinction triggered by human activity. Also referred to as The Age of Loneliness, the term alludes to the isolation that will follow the destruction of our deeply rooted relationships with other species.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775753869

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 November 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 30 Illustrations

Contributors:

Designed by Adam Hooper
Edited by Nadine Barth
Photographs by Jim Naughten
Text by Philip Lymbery
Text by Lucy Fleming Brown

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 300.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 88

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

JIM NAUGHTEN (*1969, Horsham, Sussex) explores historical and natural history subject matter using photography, stereoscopy and painting. Trained in both photography and painting, the London-based artist combines these backgrounds in a practice he refers to as 'digital painting'. Treating photographs like oil paintings on canvas, he uses digital enhancement to alter reality.