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This article examines how artists have engaged with the issue of air pollution in Beijing, where poor air quality has become a serious public health matter. Artists have utilized various mediums including performance art, photography, and painting to represent smog. Through generating media and online attention this work has contributed to a relatively vibrant "green public sphere" (Yang and Calhoun, 2007) of air pollution discourse. In contrast to much resistance in China that relies upon making specific claims to government officials, artistic expression bypasses the authorities and appeals instead to public opinion. Artists utilize ambiguity to portray air pollution in novel ways that subtly question the structures that produce and sustain it. In this way, artists can challenge popular perceptions of smog and raise public awareness, thus intensifying support for policies that tackle smog. Yet art can also embody deep frustration at the powerlessness that artists, and the public more widely, experience when confronted by severe air pollution. Art therefore serves both as a form of activism and as an expression of curtailed agency in a politically restrictive environment.

[2], 14, 21-34 p., plate : port. ; The plate is signed: Edw: Bower pinxit G: Glouer fecit. ; Text is continuous despite pagination. ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Colophon reads: In Siena: Appresso Ercole & Agamennone Gori, M.DC.XXI. ; Illustrations: 57 full-page etchings, comprising illustrated title-page, portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby, the dedicatee, signed VB, author's portrait, "misvre pedali," pike exercises (89 fig. on 34 plates), halberd exercises (4 plates incl. fig. 90-95), and musket exercises (30 fig. on 15 plates). Brunet suggests an unidentified "Bertelli" as the artist. The etching on p. 247 has the date 1620 on one musket and "Pfrem. Bart." on the other. ; Complete in one volume, although running title "Prima parte" is used throughout. ; Errata: p. 315. ; Register and colophon: p. [1] at end. ; Pages 123, 253-256 repeated in numbering. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound in modern calf, signed "Fratelli Binda, Milano"; gilt coat of arms on front and rear boards; gilt title on spine; all edges gilt.