Theoretical analysis traces ecological and economic lineages in art history, suggesting a shift from extraction toward multisensory symbiontics in the Anthropocene.
Key Points
To examine the historical intertwining of art history, economics, and ecology, tracing how aesthetic practices evolved from mediating resource extraction to embodying ecological reciprocity.
Synthesized historical frameworks across social art history, perceptual psychology, and environmental philosophy through a three-stage conceptual narrative.
Analyzed materialist visual culture (Baxandall), ecological visual perception in Earthworks (Gibson, Smithson), and contemporary BioArt paradigms.
Demonstrated that art history's ecological origins are inextricably tied to the social and economic systems that govern resource extraction and valuation.
Identified an evolution from visually driven environmental perception and Earthworks to amodal, multisensory engagements with ecological crisis.
Established symbiontics as an emergent aesthetic framework wherein second-wave BioArt actively manifests biological interdependence with more-than-human life.