Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
by T.J. Demos
- Author(s)
- T. J. Demos
- Publication
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016
- Scope
- 296 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956790942
Art historian T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed. Decolonizing Nature presents a timely critical analysis of the parameters and limitations of philosophical, artistic, and curatorial models responding to anthropogenic climate change. The book makes an impassioned argument for a post-anthropocentric political ecology, in which the aesthetic realm enjoins with Indigenous philosophies and environmental activism to challenge the neoliberal corporate-state complex. It invites us to confront tough questions on how we might collectively reimagine and realize environmental justice for humans and nonhumans alike.
- Keywords
- aesthetics - critical aesthetics , anthropocene , climate crisis , autarky
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Antropoceen
- Extra themes
- Kunst, natuur en landschap / Art Nature and Landscape
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index
