Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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; Notes
Summary
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
