Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
A brief historical overview......Page 20
A brief overview of contemporary positions......Page 22
The natural environmental model: some further ramifications......Page 28
Notes......Page 30
Aesthetic experience on the Mississippi......Page 34
Formalism and aesthetic experience......Page 36
Disinterestedness and aesthetic experience......Page 41
Notes......Page 44
Formal qualities and formalism......Page 46
Formal qualities in current work in environmental aesthetics......Page 47
Background on the significance assigned to formal qualities......Page 48
Formal qualities in the natural environment......Page 51
Conclusion......Page 55
Notes......Page 56
The appreciation of art......Page 58
Some artistic models for the appreciation of nature......Page 59
An environmental model for the appreciation of nature......Page 64
Notes......Page 68
Nature and objectivity......Page 72
Walton’s position......Page 73
Nature and culture......Page 75
Nature and Walton’s psychological claim......Page 77
The correct categories of nature......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 85
Notes......Page 86
The development of positive aesthetics......Page 90
Nature appreciation as non-aesthetic......Page 93
Positive aesthetics and sublimity......Page 96
Positive aesthetics and theism......Page 99
Science and aesthetic appreciation of nature......Page 102
Science and appropriate aesthetic appreciation of nature......Page 105
Science and positive aesthetics......Page 108
Notes......Page 112
The concept of appreciation......Page 120
Appreciating art: design appreciation......Page 125
Appreciating art: order appreciation......Page 127
Appreciating nature: design appreciation......Page 132
Appreciating nature: order appreciation......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 139
Notes......Page 140
The question of aesthetic relevance......Page 146
Objects of appreciation and aesthetic necessity......Page 148
Between nature and art: appreciating other things......Page 150
Notes......Page 152
The eyesore argument......Page 156
The dilemma of aesthetic education......Page 157
The natural......Page 158
The aesthetically pleasing......Page 160
Life values and the eyesore argument......Page 161
Conclusion......Page 164
Notes......Page 165
Environmental works of art......Page 168
Environmental art as an aesthetic affront......Page 170
Some replies to the affront charge......Page 173
Some concluding examples......Page 176
Notes......Page 179
The dialectical nature of Japanese gardens......Page 182
The appreciative paradox of Japanese gardens......Page 185
Conclusion......Page 189
Notes......Page 190
Traditional agricultural landscapes......Page 194
The new agricultural landscapes......Page 196
Difficult aesthetic appreciation and novelty......Page 201
Appreciating the new agricultural landscapes......Page 204
Conclusion......Page 207
Notes......Page 208
Architecture and art......Page 214
To be or not to be: Hamlet and Tolstoy......Page 216
Here I stand: to fit or not to fit......Page 220
Form follows function and fit follows function......Page 225
Function, location, existence: the path of appreciation......Page 229
Notes......Page 232
Hillerman’s landscapes and aesthetic relevance......Page 236
Classic formalism and postmodern landscape appreciation......Page 238
Formal descriptions and ordinary descriptions......Page 239
Other factual landscape descriptions......Page 241
The analogy with art argument......Page 243
Nominal descriptions......Page 245
Imaginative descriptions and cultural embeddedness......Page 247
Mythological landscape descriptions......Page 249
Literary landscape descriptions......Page 252
The analogy with art argument again......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 256
Notes......Page 257
INDEX......Page 260