Nature and Landscape An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics

Name: Nature and Landscape An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780231140416

ISBN-10: 023114041X

ISBN-13: 9780231140416

Edition: 2009

Authors: Allen Carlson, A. Carlson

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The roots of environmental aesthetics are embedded in the ideas of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century thinkers who found in nature the opportunity for an open, active, and creative form of aesthetic appreciation. Having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics today encourages appreciation of not just natural environments but of human-made and human-modified landscapes as well. Allen Carlson's comprehensive survey of the subject is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Carlson begins by outlining the field's historical background and surveying contemporary positions, such as scientific…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Development and Nature of Environmental Aesthetics



Aesthetic Appreciation and the Natural Environment



The Requirements for an Adequate Aesthetics of Nature



Aesthetic Appreciation and the Human Environment



Appreciation of the Human Environment Under Different Conceptions



Aesthetic Appreciation and the Agricultural Landscape



What Is the Correct Way to Aesthetically Appreciate Landscapes?


Notes


Bibliography


Index