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PERCEPTION OF AIR QUALITY

PERCEPTION OF AIR QUALITY . Jacqueline Morreau Impression of Killer fog - Embankment, 1952. AESTHETICS AS AN EFFECT. Visibility Prevention of significant detriment Attitudes and familiarity Iconography How does it affect communication?. V ädersoltavlan, Storkykan 1535. EARLY RECORD.

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PERCEPTION OF AIR QUALITY

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  1. PERCEPTION OFAIR QUALITY Jacqueline Morreau Impression of Killer fog - Embankment, 1952

  2. AESTHETICS AS AN EFFECT • Visibility • Prevention of significant detriment • Attitudes and familiarity • Iconography • How does it affect communication?

  3. Vädersoltavlan, Storkykan 1535 EARLY RECORD • It has been argued that in prehistory American Indians saw circumsolar rings as a portent… • Later detail becomes more convincing… although may still be a portent

  4. Sepia Mezzotint Claude Lorrain

  5. SYMBOLS • Termination • Change • Modernity The Fighting TéméraireWilliam Turner

  6. POLLUTION AND EMPIRE • James Tissot, (1836-1902) French painter in London after alleged involvement in the Paris Commune (1871) London Tissot, James (1836-1902)

  7. WEALTH Armfield, Maxwell (1943) This England; portrait of an Owner

  8. Pissaro, Camille Weight, Corel Running Man (1958) NO SMOKE

  9. HORRIBLE IMPACTS E. Munch The Scream 1891-1892 …orientation suggests Krakatoa triggered him to return to it in 1893?

  10. MILLENNIAL VISIONS • Steam-power • Good or evil?

  11. THE NEW ZEALANDER • Gustave Dore’s collection London: A Pilgimage (1872) ends… • “some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.” T. B. Macaulay, Edinburgh Review (1840) essay on: Leopold von Ranke Römische Päpste, ihre Kirche und ihr Staat im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Brimblecombe ENVISIONING A FOGGY APOCALYPSE in False Environmental Alerts Jens Hohensee and Frank Uekoetter

  12. CHURCH OF ENGLAND • Coal and God… Bennington, Walter Church of England (1905)

  13. CHURCH OF ENGLAND • Lofty spires… Carl Haag View of London looking West (1848)

  14. AMBIGUITY • Vincent van Gogh on good and bad days…

  15. Atkinson Grimshaw Glasgow Docks

  16. Nocturne Whistler

  17. MONET AT WESTMINSTER

  18. Albert Goodwin, In the Smoke of His Burning (1913) MONET INFLUENCE

  19. ANDRE DERAIN AND FAUVISM wild beasts: audacious color, simple pictoral means.

  20. Andre Derain

  21. Art nouveau Art deco GEOMETRICSTYLES Column of Cloud and Fire Leading God’s People Tapestry at St. Albans Cathedral

  22. Eric van Straaten Blue lagoon Iceland 1985 Georges Suerat Bathing at Asnières (1883…)

  23. Georgia O'Keeffe The East River from Shelton Hotels, 1928

  24. YELLOW FOGS • Scattering • Tar in droplets • Gaslight Yoshio Markino- The Painter of Fog

  25. PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART Jennings, William N. (1860-1946) London Brown Fog a week November 1899

  26. IMAGES OF FOGGY LONDON Figures in the Smoke Wolf Suschitzky

  27. Yoshio Markino Gustave Doré

  28. Yoshio Markino Wolf Suschitzky

  29. Yoshio Markino 1952 Smog

  30. WARTIME a clear landmark for the bombers of the Luftwaffe

  31. A POLLUTION RECORD

  32. CRIMINALITY AND POLLUTION Jack the Ripper There floats a phantom on the slum's foul air,... Red handed, ruthless, furtive, unerect 'Tis murderous crime - the Nemesis of Neglect!"

  33. Fog embedded in the myth yet unrelated to the Ripper’s activities! HITCHCOCK’S FIRST MOVIE … a Ripper fiction BRIMBLECOMBE, P. in Uekoetter, F. and Hohensee, J. (Eds.), Wird Kassandra heiser? Steiner Stuttgart

  34. ART on POSTERSand T-SHIRTS

  35. CELEBRATING POLLUTION An old postcard of stubble burning

  36. GREETINGS THE PORT OF IPSWICH FROM WHERSTED HILL (1949) Leonard Squirrell

  37. CELEBRATING POLLUTION

  38. SMOG ASICON • London, summer smog and secondary pollutants…

  39. SMOG into USA • By the 1950’s smog became embedded into American language

  40. Clear Day on Hollyridge(2001)Carol Putnam

  41. CATCHING PHOTOCHEMISTRY Summer HazeCarol Satriani

  42. LA SMOG in ART • Difficult to represent given a kind of solidity

  43. SMOG as DEMON In Los Angeles smog can be seen as the explanation for human behaviour, criminal activity etc

  44. FOG • Why so much fog? • What role?

  45. Cause • Endings • Apocalypse Outside Houston Susan Ross

  46. Contemporary media, writing and art are vehicles for apocalyptic visions, so form an important aspect in the public understanding of global science… MODERN IMAGES OF APOCALYPSE

  47. MODERN apokaluiUNVEILING…? • Each age interprets apocalypses in its own way... the millennium bug EI Nino, blood AIDS • Apocalyptic visions imply the environment is beyond our control... suggests we are freed from responsibility

  48. REALIZINGAPOCALYPSE A potential for paralysis or inaction

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