Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art

2019-11-30 Art

Author : Hannah Baader
Release : 2019-11-30
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art written by Hannah Baader. This book was released on 2019-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the conceptual interconnections, fractures, and correspondences between theories of nature, ecology, environment, and aesthetics? In answering such a question, 'Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art' brings art history, a discipline that has for long been concerned with notions of landscape, nature, materiality, and aesthetic processes, into the emerging conversation of the ecological turn in visual culture studies.

The ecological eye

2018-12-06 Art

Author : Andrew Patrizio
Release : 2018-12-06
Genre : Art
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Download or read book The ecological eye written by Andrew Patrizio. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and orientate an ecological sensibility within the history of art? Building on the latest work in the discipline, this book provides the blueprint for an ‘ecocritical art history’, one that is prepared to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, climate change and global warming. Without ignoring its own histories, the book looks beyond – at politics, posthumanism, new materialism, feminism, queer theory and critical animal studies – invigorating the art-historical practices of the future.

Ecosophical Aesthetics

2018-06-14 Philosophy

Author : Patricia MacCormack
Release : 2018-06-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Ecosophical Aesthetics written by Patricia MacCormack. This book was released on 2018-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book explores the many ways that aesthetics – in the forms of visual art, film, sculpture, painting, literature, and the screenplay – can act as catalysts, allowing us to see the world differently, beyond traditional modes of representation. This is in direct parallel to Guattari's own attempt to break down the 19th century Kantian dialectic between man, art, and world, in favour of a non-hierarchical, transversal approach, to produce a more ethical and ecologically sensitive world view. Each chapter author analyses artworks which critique capitalism's industrial devastation of the environment, while at the same time offering affirmative, imaginative futures suggested by art. Including contributions from philosophers, film theorists and artists, this book asks: How can we interact with the world in a non-dominant and non-destructive way? How can art catalyze new ethical relations with non-human entities and the environment? And, crucially, what part can philosophy play in rethinking these structures of interaction?

Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics

2019-08-26 Philosophy

Author : Fanren Zeng
Release : 2019-08-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics written by Fanren Zeng. This book was released on 2019-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in detail the issues of ecological civilization development, ecological philosophy, ecological criticism, environmental aesthetics, and the ecological wisdom of traditional Chinese culture related to ecological aesthetics. Drawing on Western philosophy and aesthetics, it proposes and demonstrates a unique aesthetic view of ecological ontology in the field of aesthetics under the direct influence of Marxism, which is based on the modern economic, social cultural development and the modern values of traditional Chinese culture.This book embodies the innovative interpretation of Chinese traditional culture in the Chinese academic community. The author discusses the philosophical and cultural resources that can be used for reference in Chinese and Western cultural tradition, focusing on traditional Chinese Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and painting art, Western modern ecological philosophy, Heidegger's ontology ecological aesthetics, and British and American environmental aesthetics.In short, the book comprehensively discusses the author's concept of ecological ontology aesthetics as an integration and unification of ontology aesthetics and ecological aesthetics. This generalized ecological aesthetics explores the relationship between humans and nature, society and itself, guided by the brand-new ecological worldview in the post-modern context. It also changes the non-beauty state of human existence and establishes an aesthetic existence state that conforms to ecological laws.

Climate Change and the Art of Devotion

2019-07-31 Art

Author : Sugata Ray
Release : 2019-07-31
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Climate Change and the Art of Devotion written by Sugata Ray. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture. A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/climate-change-and-the-art-of-devotion

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