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. This book is the final publication of Sacha Kagan's doctoral thesis at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
Weiterführende Informationen
Personen: Kagan, Sacha
MR 7100 K11-01
Kagan, Sacha:
Art and Sustainability : Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity / Sacha Kagan. - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale Praxis, 2011. - 514 S. : graph. Darst.
ISBN 978-3-8376-1803-7
Sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien und Methoden - Buch