Eco-Aesthetics - Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change

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, eco-aesthetics and contemporary aesthetic theories, offering timely critiques of consumerism and globalisation and, ultimately, offers a possible formulation of an engaged eco-aesthetic for the early 21st century.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Climate Change and Culture
2. Ecologies
3. Aesthetics
4. Ruins and Catastrophes
5. Regressions and Reclamations
6. Representations
7. Interruptions
8. Cultures and Climate Change
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Malcolm Miles is a writer and researcher on critical and cultural theory, art and urbanism. Previously Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, he is the author of Art, Space and the City (1997), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004), Cities and Cultures (2007), and Urban Utopias (2008), Herbert Marcuse: an Aesthetics of Liberation (2011), Eco-Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Limits to Culture (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Miles, Miles Malcolm
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9781472529107
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-2910-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Radical Aesthetics - Radical Art; Radical Aesthetics, Radical Ar; Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art; Radical Aesthetics, Radical Ar
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Environmentalist thought and ideology, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental