Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity

Sacha Kagan

doi:10.14361/transcript.9783839418031

Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity

Sacha Kagan

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Bielefeld
Publisher	transcript Verlag
Edition	2
Number of pages	514
ISBN (Print)	978-3-8376-1803-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-8394-1803-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839418031
Publication status	Published - 29.06.2011

Bibliographical note

Zugl.: Lüneburg, Univ., Diss., 2011

Note re. dissertation

2nd emended edition published in 2013

Research areas and keywords

Science of art
ecological art
art and sustainability
Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
culture and sustainability
Sustainability sciences, Communication
transdisciplinarity
systems thinking
Philosophy
ecological aesthetics
complexity

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Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Note re. dissertation

Research areas and keywords

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Activities

Aesthetics of complexity, artists and resilient communities in urban anthropo-scenes

Art and Sustainability: Aesthetics of Complexity

No Sustainability without Culture of Sustainability: Art's role toward global (environ)mental change

Press/Media

Sacha Kagan. Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2011. (Book Review)

Art and Sustainability: Connecting patterns for a culture of complexity (Book Review)

Sacha Kagan, Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (Book Review)

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