The Seasons of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3869930 |
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| Authors | Toni Hildebrandt (0000-0003-3089-0297), T H Hildebrandt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 57 |
| Pages | 11-19 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique d’art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1246-8258 • E-ISSN: 2265-9404 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/critiquedart.85137 |
| OpenAlex | W4200467701 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In recent years, artists, art historians, critics and curators have revised the epistemologies of elements that rely on perspectives taken from the environmental humanities, stimulated by the debates surrounding the Anthropocene. We have known for decades, but are now increasingly experiencing, that the climate is changing. This also concerns the metaphorology of the elements, and in particular their underlying metaphysical foundations (equilibrium, harmonia, eucrasia). To structurally understand this change of paradigm, it would be helpful to focus on one particular trope: seasons. For centuries, "our" seasons were taken as a given, dividing the year in characteristic phases mostly based on the weather and daylight. As such, the seasons provided, or so it seemed, an eternal inspiration for the arts. The definition Hans Blumenberg gave of the moon, the "last placeholder of anthropocentrism" 1 , could in this sense be transposed to Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as well. In poetizing the seasons, we still desire to confirm our subsumed centrality within the eternal return of being and meaning
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphysics · The arts · Visual arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Highly cited | No |
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