Contemporary Art and Environmental Aesthetics

Samantha Clark

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    Abstract

    Aesthetic debates within contemporary art have been tangential to the debates in environmental aesthetics since the 1960s. I argue that these disciplines, having evolved separately in response to the limitations of traditional aesthetics, may now usefully inform each other. Firstly, the dematerialisation of art as the focus of aesthetic experience may have environmentally useful consequences. Secondly, Gablik's 'connective aesthetics', like Berleant's 'aesthetics of engagement', folds aesthetic experience into the social as a kind of environmental aesthetics. Thirdly, contemporary art's flexible readings of 'framing' can respond to 'frameless' natural environments, and finally, Kester's 'dialogical aesthetics' may be enriched by Berleant's systematic account of 'contextual aesthetics'.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)351-371
    Number of pages21
    JournalEnvironmental Values
    Volume19
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2010

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