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Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

Autor Malcolm Miles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2014
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472529404
ISBN-10: 1472529405
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 36 illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Malcolm Miles is an internationally renowned cultural theorist specialising in art and culture

Notă biografică

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture, Design & Environment at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Cuprins

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of illustrationsIntroduction1. Climate Change and Culture2. Ecologies3. Aesthetics 4. Ruins and Catastrophes5. Regressions and Reclamations6. Representations 7. Interruptions8. Cultures and Climate Change BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Torn between hope and despair about the disastrous consequences of climate change, the question runs burning through our cultural life: what role can art, literature and architecture still play? Reading Malcolm Miles' book we learn that there is no one-line answer on this question. Page by page however he teaches us that there is a beauty in critical thought and perspective on what is going to happen. Taking a wide range of positions and cases into examination, Miles convinces the reader that the ruins of climate change, at least, do not need to be the ruins of our civilization.
Malcolm Miles' Eco-Aesthetics is an erudite, elegant, informed and critical account of art in the age of seemingly inexorable climate change
In this impressive and wide-ranging book, Malcolm Miles sets out lucidly the case for a new approach to aesthetics that can form part of a 'long revolution' in our response to ecological issues. Balanced carefully between hope and despair, it serves both a cri-de-coeur and a celebration of the human creative spirit in the face of a global capitalist system which shows little interest in such values.
In this slim, elegantly written volume, Miles charts a radical new path for the field of environmental aesthetics . Miles is not naïve: he does not present art as something that can magically bring today's environmental state of emergency into sharper focus. Nonetheless, through rethinking and contextualizing ecologies, aesthetics, and cultures of climate change by reference to art, Miles brings readers face-to-face with both the despair of Earth's future and the hope that one can indeed take some positive action against the ravages of climate change. The hope illuminated so intelligently in this book is an offering of beauty, which, as "radically other to routine," can indeed re-inflect today's culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.