The monograph is significant for several reasons. First of all, it inscribes the Lithuanian tradition of eco-consciousness and expression of natural arts into the global plane of reflections on the interaction between man and nature. Delving deeper into the Lithuanian documentary imagery of the 1960s and 1970s, local features of eco-consciousness become apparent, as well as their environmental and political content of resistance to Soviet occupation and indoctrination. The depiction of nature here emerges as a certain counterbalance or resistance to the technological urban takeover of nature and its transformation, while at the same time constantly praising Soviet technological modernization. In this regard, it is important to note the dual nature of that modernization: in Western countries, technological development with all its pluses and minuses was spontaneous, causing internal social contradictions, while in ours, modernization was at the same time the consolidation of the occupying power. Thus, the visual highlighting of the beauty of “untouched” nature in its own way opposed not only technologization together with collective farming, but also occupation. The distinguished dimension of Anthropocene aesthetics expands the concept of contemporary aesthetics and artistry from the point of view of transcending the distinction between nature and culture. Eco-creative work takes on the nature of scientific, usually ecological and species interaction research, which goes beyond the traditional perception of a work of art, spreading artistic community creative practices that attract local eco-knowledge accumulated over centuries. The author explores the Lithuanian artistic image and the ideological attitudes supporting it using the latest insights of today's philosophers, cultural anthropologists and art theorists, highlighting their deep interconnectedness, in other words, producing a unique fabric of echoes, in which the individual pattern of Lithuanian artistic thinking becomes apparent. This will undoubtedly he

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