Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (Image): 25 - Softcover

Sacha Kagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383761803X ISBN 13: 9783837618037

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Review

Sacha Kagan [...] presents a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the relationship between art and sustainability in the context of complexity theory.--Anne Milne "The Goose, 11 (2012) "

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 383761803X
• ISBN 13: 9783837618037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514