Eco-Aesthetics
Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2014
256 pages
978-1-4725-2460-7 (ISBN)
Description
By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art practice. There is no doubt that the social and environmental spheres are interconnected but can art and artists really make a difference to the global environmental crisis? Can art practice meaningfully contribute to the development of sustainable lifestyles? Malcolm Miles explores the strands of eco-art, eco-aesthetics and contemporary aesthetic theories, offering timely critiques of consumerism and globalisation and, ultimately, offers a possible formulation of an engaged eco-aesthetic for the early 21st century.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
36 illus
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-2460-7 (9781472524607)
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Book
05/2014
Bloomsbury Academic
€39.50
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Person
Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture, Design & Environment at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Climate Change and Culture
2. Ecologies
3. Aesthetics
4. Ruins and Catastrophes
5. Regressions and Reclamations
6. Representations
7. Interruptions
8. Cultures and Climate Change
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Climate Change and Culture
2. Ecologies
3. Aesthetics
4. Ruins and Catastrophes
5. Regressions and Reclamations
6. Representations
7. Interruptions
8. Cultures and Climate Change
Bibliography
Index
