Care Ethics and Art

Care Ethics and Art explores how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in various contexts, offering new modes of understanding and practical solutions for social issues. It benefits scholars and postgraduate research students in art, art history, theory, visual cultures, philosophy, and gender studies, as well as creative and arts practitioners.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 316 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections, and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices that might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it brings together contributions from artists, researchers, and practitioners who creatively consider how care can be practised in a range of contexts, including environmental ethics, progressive pedagogies, cultures of work, alternative economic models, death literacy advocacy, parenting and mothering, deep listening, mental health, disability, and craftivism. Care Ethics and Art contributes new modes of understanding these fields, together with practical solutions and models of practice, while also offering new ways to think about recent contemporary art and its social function. The book will benefit scholars and postgraduate research students in the fields of art, art history and theory, visual cultures, philosophy, and gender studies, as well as creative and arts practitioners.

Weight: 550g
Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367765644