Energielandschaften (Franca Buss)

As societies transition to renewable energy, landscapes have become the focus of growing aesthetic and public debate. Yet landscapes have long been shaped by practices of energy production - from agricultural land, wind - and watermills to the landscapes of fossil fuel extraction. These changing relationships between energy and landscape have not only transformed the physical environment but have also left their mark on artistic and literary representations. Bringing together contributions from art history, history, literary studies, and film studies, this volume traces these developments from the early modern period to the present. It explores how artistic representations make practices of energy production visible and how, in turn, they shape our understanding and perception of landscape.

• History of energy landscapes from the early modern age to the present
• Systematic analysis of artistic and literary representations as means of visualizing processes in the energy industry
• Study of current debates on the topic of energy transition, with a view to its visual and cultural dimensions

Franca Buss, Frank Fehrenbach, Laura Isengard, Cornelia Zumbusch, DFG research group 'Imaginarien der Kraft', University of Hamburg