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Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity: 2013
Sacha Kagan
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
514
Place of Publication
, Austria
ISBN
9783837618037
SKU
V9783837618037
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99-1
About Sacha Kagan
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.
Reviews for Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity: 2013
Sacha Kagan's work is impressive in the breadth of concepts, names and theories, the depth of their study, the saturation of the empirical material. (translated from Russian) Laboratorium, 5/2 (2013) 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 ... Read more