La condición de supervivencia en la percepción de la Naturaleza

Abstract

The publication of the report The limits of the growth in 1972 meant to enter in an age where the science quantifies the duration of the life in the planet, and it questions the survival of the same one. Therefore, the social raising awareness re-defines the traditional cultural perception of a magnanimous and unlimited Nature for one where the pressure for the survival itself in a limited Nature, marks in an essential way the current view in the 21st century. This article shows this transformation through a simple path, across relevant viewpoints in last 200 years, which relate Nature and survival. It begins symbolically in the work Caspar David Friedrich to finish and to contrast with Eliasson Olafur's artistic reflections. Complementary, it supports to clarify the above mentioned change, with different and known meanings of survival.