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Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change
Malcolm Miles
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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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Radical Aesthetics Radical Art
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472529404
SKU
V9781472529404
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Ref
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About Malcolm Miles
Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture, Design & Environment at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Reviews for Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change
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 ... Read more