Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A

Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson

MINING, OIL AND ENERGY IN ART AND FICTION:

ART:

Gustave Courbet’s “Les Casseurs de pierres” / “The Stone Breakers” (1850) Original destroyed during World War II bombings of Dresden, 1945

Gustave Courbet painted this as a work of “social realism” depicting two peasants breaking rocks. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850. The original was destroyed nearly 100 years later when a transport vehicle that was moving the painting along with 154 other pieces of art was destroyed during a bomb raid by Allied Forces in 1945.

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Bill Brandt’s “Northumbrian Coal Miner Eating His Evening Meal” (1937) Bill Brandt Archive -- one of several related to documenting coal mining in Britain.

Bill Brandt was a famous British photographer and photojournalist. His work focused on images related to British social life. He is widely considered one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century.

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Henry Moore’s Coal Mining Drawings, 1940-1942 Imperial War Museum, London, UK

Henry Moore, a famous twentieth-century British sculptor and artist, was hired as an official war artist during WWII. In 1940 he was commissioned to make drawings of coal miners at Wheldale Colliery in Castleford. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/19452

Henry Moore, Miner at Work (1942), ink, chalk and gouache on paper, Imperial War Museum, London

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Graham Vivian Sutherland’s “Cornish Tin Mine, Emerging Miner” (1943) Graham Sutherland Collection, National Museum, Wales Note: This museum holds a wide variety of documentary art regarding industry that is available for licensing with the appropriate permissions.

Graham Vivian Sutherland was a notable British painter and artist who was hired as one of many official war artists during World War II between 1940-45. During this time, he worked mostly on the home front, capturing scenes from tin mining in Cornwall (below), as well as open cast coal mining, limestone quarrying and other subjects. https://museum.wales/3372/

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Bob Callender, Oil and Gas Fine Art Photography (2014-ongoing) Corporate photographer, Texas, US

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Alex MacLean’s “Supply+Demand= Tar Sands” (2014) *** Canadian content *** http://www.alexmaclean.com/portfolio/supply-demand--tar-sands/140406-0111/

A series of photographs taken in 2014 by acclaimed US aerial photographer Alex MacLean that captures the oil fields of Alberta from above, including images such as the one below: “Oil Skimming” of Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta.

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Louis Helbig’s “Beautiful Destruction” (2014) *** Canadian content *** http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/beautiful-destruction-gallery/

A series of aerial photographs taken by Canadian artist Louis Helbig that depict the Albertan oil sands, including the one below “Slick Sunset” of Albian Sands Muskeg River Mine. This image and others are now apart of Helbig’s book project of the same name that includes the images alongside essays that discuss the tar sands and Canada’s energy sector.

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Louis Helbig’s “Sunken Villages” (2015-ongoing) *** Canadian content *** http://sunkenvillages.ca

The most recent and ongoing project of Canadian artist Louis Helbig again uses aerial photography to capture the villages along the St. Lawrence Seaway. They were flooded with the introduction of the 1959 hydroelectric project. Still underwater, the villages have become visible after zebra mussels have clarified the waters.

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FICTION:

Richard Llewellyn, How Green was my Valley (1939) A novel by Richard Llewellyn that depicts a Welsh family and the mining community in which they lived. Although Llewellyn claimed he based the book on his own experiences, his claim was found to be untrue, with him gathering material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach, Goch. The novel won the National Book Award for favourite novel in 1940.

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James Dickey, Deliverance (1970) A novel by James Dickey that was adapted into a widely acclaimed film of the same name two years later. It tells the story of four businessmen who decide to take a risky canoe trip through remote northern Georgia wilderness before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded upon the construction of a hydroelectric damn.

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Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven (1987) The second novel of Giardina that depicts the “West Virginia Mine Wars” between 1890-1921 when miners were fighting to be unionized, near the West Virginia- Kentucky border. The novel won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.

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Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth (1994) The third novel of Giardina that depicts two cousins who are romantically involved. The novel tells their experiences in witnessing the changes within the community in which they grew up near the border of West Virginia and Kentucky from 1930 to the 1990s. The changes are largely a result of a large coal mining company establishing itself in the area. The novel won the Weatherford Award of the year.

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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, A Coal Miner’s Bride (2000) A novel by award winning novelist Susan Campbell Bartoletti depicting the life of a 13- year-old Polish immigrant who is promised to a Pennsylvania coal miner in an arranged marriage. Following his untimely death in the mines, she is left to care for his three young children in grueling conditions.

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S.M. Stirling, Dies the Fire (2005) A post-apocalyptic novel that describes a mysterious event rendering modern advances in energy, electricity, gunpowder, etc. inoperable. A band of survivors, who name themselves “the Bearkillers” attempt to survive amidst the chaos that unfolds.

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Tawni O’Dell, Coal Run (2005) The second novel by Tawni O’Dell, which depicts a small town in the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania, whose townspeople are still attempting to cope with a tragic mine explosion that killed 96 miners.

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Alex Scarrow, Last Light (2007) A speculative / apocalyptic novel depicting a British family who are attempting to survive after the world’s oil supplies have been severed and social chaos erupts.

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James Howard Kunstler, World Made by Hand (2008) A dystopian novel by author and social critic James Howard Kunstler that depicts a fictional town of Union Grove, New York, and follows a set of characters attempting to survive after the economic upheavals of “peak oil”.

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Steve Alten, The Shell Game (2008) A US thriller written by acclaimed science fiction writer Steve Alten, depicting the resultant international fallout and violence as oil supplies begin to deplete. The book begins in 2007 as the CIA plans a nuclear attack on a US city. They intend to blame the attack on Iran, inciting a retaliatory strike that will put the US in control of Iran’s oil supplies.

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Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day the Falls Stood Still (2009) *** Canadian content*** A novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan that follows two young characters, Tom and Bess, living in early twentieth-century Niagara Falls, Ontario. Bess’s father, once affluent, has lost his prominent position at the hydroelectric power plant and turns to alcohol, leaving Bess and her mother trying to make ends meet as their fortunes change.

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Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008, 2009, 2010) A critically acclaimed speculative / science fiction adventure trilogy by Suzanne Collins that has been adapted to film. The novel depicts a nation called Panem, within which a rich Capitol Region is surrounded by twelve impoverished districts. As punishment for a past rebellion, two children from each of the districts are annually conscripted to fight to the death in the televised “Hunger Games”. The novels focus on the character Katniss Everdeen, a young woman from the coal mining District 12, who volunteers to participate in the games in the place of her younger sister.

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Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (2010) An award winner novel by acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen follows the complicated lives of the Berglund’s family, as well as their lovers and friends, over many years. The father figure, Walter, an avid environmentalist, is hired by a coal mining magnate who want to strip mine a section of West Virginia forest before turning it into a songbird preserve.

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Ken Follet, Fall of Giants (2010) The first book of a trilogy of historical novels by Ken Follett, the novel follows five interrelated Welsh families throughout the course of the twentieth century, beginning in 1911 with Billy Twice, a young boy going to work his first day in the coal mine underneath the fictional Welsh town of Aberowen.

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Amy Rogers, Petroplague (2011) A science / speculative fiction novel by Amy Rogers that follows the UCLA student Christina Gonz who develops a genetically-modified bacteria that changes all petroleum and oil products into vinegar. When her bacteria are unleashed as an act of eco- terrorism, it results in chaos as the “petroplague” spreads.

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John Grisham, Gray Mountain (2014) A legal fiction novel by acclaimed author John Grisham that follows the character Samantha Kofer, once an affluent Wall Street lawyer. She loses her job after the recession hits and finds unexpected employment in coal-mining community Brady, Virginia, where she learns the darker sides of the business.

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Natalie S. Harnett, The Hollow Ground (2014) A novel by Natalie S. Harnett and winner of the Appalachian Book of 2014 and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award, the story follows young Brigid Howley whose family has been displaced by the underground mine fires raging in Pennsylvania coal country of the 1960s.

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Christopher Scotton, The Secret Wisdom of Earth (2015) A novel by Christopher Scotten depicting the story of a teenage boy who moves to a coal town deep in the Appalachia after a tragic family accident, and befriends a half-wild boy Buzzy Fink.

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Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River (2015) A novel by acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman, the story follows the character Emma Malloy who determines to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town.