Description
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.
Author: Sacha Kagan
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: 08/05/2011
Pages: 514
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9783837618037
ISBN10: 383761803X
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Nature | Ecology
Author: Sacha Kagan
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: 08/05/2011
Pages: 514
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9783837618037
ISBN10: 383761803X
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Nature | Ecology
About the Author
Sacha Kagan is research associate at Leuphana University Lueneburg and founding coordinator of the international network Cultura21. He works in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability.