PERCEPTION OF

AIR QUALITY

Jacqueline Morreau Impression of Killer fog - Embankment, 1952

AESTHETICS AS AN EFFECTAESTHETICS AS AN EFFECT

Visibility Prevention of significant

detriment Attitudes and familiarity Iconography How does it affect

communication?

EARLY RECORDEARLY 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

Vädersoltavlan, Storkykan 1535

Sepia Mezzotint Claude

Lorrain

SYMBOLS SYMBOLS

The Fighting TéméraireWilliam Turner

Termination Change Modernity

POLLUTION AND EMPIREPOLLUTION AND EMPIRE

James Tissot, (1836-1902) French painter in London after alleged involvement in the Paris Commune (1871) London

Tissot, James (1836-1902)

WEALTHWEALTH

Armfield, Maxwell (1943)

This England; portrait of an Owner

NO SMOKENO SMOKE

Weight, Corel

Running Man (1958)

Pissaro, Camille

E. Munch The Scream 1891-1892

…orientation suggests Krakatoa triggered him to return to it in 1893?

HORRIBLE IMPACTSHORRIBLE IMPACTS

MILLENNIAL VISIONSMILLENNIAL VISIONS

Steam-power Good or evil?

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

THE NEW ZEALANDERTHE NEW ZEALANDER

Brimblecombe ENVISIONING A FOGGY APOCALYPSE in False Environmental Alerts Jens Hohensee and Frank Uekoetter

CHURCH CHURCH OF OF ENGLANDENGLAND

Coal and God…

Bennington, Walter Church of England (1905)

CHURCH CHURCH OF OF ENGLANDENGLAND

Carl HaagView of London looking West (1848)

Lofty spires…

AMBIGUITYAMBIGUITY

Vincent van Gogh on good and bad days…

Atkinson GrimshawGlasgow Docks

Nocturne Whistler

MONET AT WESTMINSTERMONET AT WESTMINSTER

MONET INFLUENCEMONET INFLUENCE

Albert Goodwin, In the Smoke of His Burning (1913)

wild beasts:

audacious color, simple pictoral means.

ANDRE DERAIN AND FAUVISMANDRE DERAIN AND FAUVISM

Andre Derain

GEOMETRICGEOMETRICSTYLESSTYLES

Art nouveau Art deco

Column of Cloud and Fire Leading God’s People

Tapestry at St. Albans Cathedral

Georges SueratBathing at Asnières (1883…)

Eric van StraatenBlue lagoon Iceland 1985

Georgia O'KeeffeThe East River from Shelton Hotels, 1928

Yoshio Markino- The Painter of Fog

YELLOW FOGSYELLOW FOGS

Scattering Tar in droplets Gaslight

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

PHOTOGRAPHY AS ARTPHOTOGRAPHY AS ART

IMAGES OF FOGGY LONDONIMAGES OF FOGGY LONDON

Figures in the Smoke Wolf Suschitzky

Yoshio Markino Gustave Doré

Wolf Suschitzky Yoshio Markino

Yoshio Markino 1952 Smog

WARTIMEWARTIME

a clear landmark for the bombers of the Luftwaffe

A POLLUTION A POLLUTION RECORDRECORD

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

Jack the Ripper

CRIMINALITY AND POLLUTIONCRIMINALITY AND POLLUTION

HITCHCOCK’S FIRST MOVIEHITCHCOCK’S FIRST MOVIE… a Ripper fiction… a Ripper fiction

Fog embedded in the myth yet unrelated to the Ripper’s activities!

BRIMBLECOMBE, P. in Uekoetter, F. and Hohensee, J. (Eds.), Wird Kassandra heiser? Steiner Stuttgart

ART on POSTERSART on POSTERSand T-SHIRTS and T-SHIRTS

CELEBRATING POLLUTIONCELEBRATING POLLUTION

An old postcard of stubble burning

GREETINGSGREETINGS

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

CELEBRATING POLLUTIONCELEBRATING POLLUTION

SMOG SMOG ASASICONICON

London, summer smog and secondary pollutants…

SMOG into USASMOG into USA

By the 1950’s smog became embedded into American language

Clear Day on Hollyridge (2001)Carol Putnam

CATCHING PHOTOCHEMISTRYCATCHING PHOTOCHEMISTRY

Summer HazeCarol Satriani

LA SMOG in ARTLA SMOG in ART Difficult to represent

given a kind of solidity

SMOG SMOG as as DEMONDEMON

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

FOGFOG

Why so much fog? What role?

Outside HoustonSusan Ross

Cause Endings Apocalypse

MODERN IMAGES OF MODERN IMAGES OF APOCALYPSEAPOCALYPSE

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

MODERNMODERN UNVEILING…?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

REALIZINGREALIZINGAPOCALYPSEAPOCALYPSE

A potential for paralysis or inaction

GREENHOUSE EFFECTGREENHOUSE EFFECT

Greenhouse EffectAndrew Stewart

THE ENDTHE END