Art and Climate Change: Contemporary Artists Respond to Global Crisis
This essay examines various contemporary artistic responses to climate change. These responses encompass multiple media and diverse philosophical and emotional forms, from grief and resignation to resistance, hope, and poignant celebration of spiritual value and natural beauty. Rejecting much of the...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Zygon
Année: 2018, Volume: 53, Numéro: 2, Pages: 613-623 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Changement climatique
/ Modernité
/ Art
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions NCG Éthique de la création; Éthique environnementale |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Beauty
B Nature B Anthropocene B Espèce B Spirituality B the sublime B Climate Change B oceanic feeling B Technology B Religion B Science B Truth |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | This essay examines various contemporary artistic responses to climate change. These responses encompass multiple media and diverse philosophical and emotional forms, from grief and resignation to resistance, hope, and poignant celebration of spiritual value and natural beauty. Rejecting much of the terminology of current theory, the author considers the artworks in relation to interrelated and arguably unjustly discredited aesthetic and theological categories, namely, the sublime and the beautiful as well as the via negativa, the latter adapted from Thomas Aquinas by theologian Matthew Fox. Art's power is seen largely as the ability to humanize the science by rendering it emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually relatable to individuals. The broken relationship between humanity and nature seems related to the need for a renewed religious sense of integration with, and belonging to, the cosmos. Art might play a pivotal role in bringing this about. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12413 |