
Ecological Aesthetics
artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics
Nathaniel Stern(Author)
Dartmouth College Press
Will be published approx. on 14. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-5126-0291-3 (ISBN)
Description
With this poetic and scholarly collection of stories about art, artists, and their materials, Nathaniel Stern argues that ecology, aesthetics, and ethics are inherently entwined, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. An ecological approach, says Stern, takes account of agents, processes, thoughts, and relations. Humans, matter, concepts, things, not-yet-things, politics, economics, and industry are all actively shaped in, and as, their interrelation. Aesthetics are a style of, and orientation toward, thought-and thus action. The book contains dozens of color images and quotations from artists. Stern, an artist himself, writes with an eco-aesthetic that continually unfurls artful tactics that can also be used in everyday existence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
22 illus. (21 colour)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5126-0291-3 (9781512602913)
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NATHANIEL STERN is the author of Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. He is an associate professor of art and design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an associate researcher at the University of Johannesburg.