Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity - Image Vol. 25
Sacha Kagan
Kagan starts his analysis pointing at the Western development model and the modern worldview that lie at the heart of unsustainability. He characterizes the modern worldview as based in the classical scientific method and as atomistic, materialistic, individualistic and Eurocentric. Kagan's assumption is that in order to change our actual culture of unsustainability in a sustainable one, we will have to look for an alternative worldview and go beyond utilitarian rationality that is so very common in our contemporary cultures and in most analyses of sustainability. We will have to engage ourselves in a really fundamental rethinking of our culture and our ways of thinking, knowing and seeing ourselves and the world. 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. Review in: International journal of cutural policy.19(2013)1(141-143).
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Година:
2011
Издание:
2
Издателство:
Transcript Verlag
Език:
english
Страници:
513
ISBN 10:
383761803X
ISBN 13:
9783837618037
Серия:
Image
Файл:
PDF, 2.66 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011