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Sustainability in an Imaginary World - Art and the Question of Agency (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,236
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Sustainability in an Imaginary World - Art and the Question of Agency (Paperback): David Maggs, John Robinson

Sustainability in an Imaginary World - Art and the Question of Agency (Paperback)

David Maggs, John Robinson

Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability

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Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade, interest in art's agency has ballooned as an increasing number of fields turn to the arts with ever-expanding expectations. Yet just as art is being heralded as a magic bullet of social change, research is beginning to throw cautionary light on such enthusiasm, challenging the linear, prescriptive, instrumental expectations such transdisciplinary interactions often imply. In this, art finds itself at a treacherous crossroads, unable to turn a deaf ear to calls for help from an increasing number of ostensibly non-aesthetic fields, yet in answering such prescriptive urgencies, jeopardizing the very power for which its help was sought in the first place. This book goes in search of a way forward, proposing a theory of art aiming to preserve the integrity of arts practices within transdisciplinary mandates. This approach is then explored through a series of case studies developed in collaboration with some of Canada's most prominent artists, including internationally renowned nature poet Don McKay; Italian composer and Head of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio Magnanesi; the renowned Electric Company Theatre, led by Kevin Kerr; and finally through a largescale multimedia installation aiming to reimagine the relationship between climate, culture, and human agency. Sustainability in an Imaginary World will be of great interest to students and scholars of arts-based research fields, sustainability studies, and environmental humanities.

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Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Release date: December 2021
First published: 2020
Authors: David Maggs • John Robinson
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-223874-6
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology
Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Music > General
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LSN: 1-03-223874-7
Barcode: 9781032238746

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