Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity

ISBN-13: 9783837618037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 514 str.

Sacha Kagan

Opis

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on cultures of sustainability. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, and to re-awaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years, and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process.

Recenzje

Reviewed in: www.turbulence.org, 8 (2011) Oxford Art Journal, 35/1 (2012) International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1-3 (2012), George Kaye Oya, 9 (2011), Lara Mallien Kulturelle Bildung, 9 (2012) The Goose, 11 (2012), Anne Milne Stradda, 25 (2012), Martina Marti International Sociology, 27/9 (2012), Diane Barthel-Bouchier Laboratorium, 5/2 (2013)

O autorze

Kagan, SachaSacha Kagan (Dr. phil.) was Research Associate for Cultural Mediation and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He publishes extensively in the field of art and sustainability.