Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts
Title | Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Salim Kemal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521558549 |
A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.
Nature and Landscape
Title | Nature and Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Carlson |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780231140416 |
The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.
Art of the Landscape
Title | Art of the Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Raffaele Milani |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2009-04-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0773575782 |
Aesthetics deals with art, a human construction, but what one experiences when placed before nature is also an aesthetic feeling - the countryside is a place of reflection like no other. In The Art of the Landscape, Raffaele Milani interprets natural landscapes as an aesthetic category. Drawing from philosophical traditions, literature, and art, he calls the reader's attention to a special consciousness, originally established during the pre-Romantic age, that has become a distinctive feature of contemporary spirituality. Focusing on the definition of landscapes in relation to the concepts of nature, environment, territory, and man-made settings such as gardens and cities, Milani examines the origins of the predilection for natural scenery in the works of landscape painters and in travel literature. He addresses the distinctness of the aesthetic experience of landscapes, analyses the role of aesthetic categories, and explores landscape art as a medium of contemplation. What emerges is an original morphology of natural beauty derived from the scrutiny of landscape elements most frequently associated with aesthetic emotion - the colour of water and the sky, earth and stones, fire and volcanic eruptions, ruins and the mountains - an analysis especially relevant given the increasing fragility of our natural environment.
Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism
Title | Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Carlson |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780231138864 |
Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the valuable contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism. Allen Carlson, a pioneer in environmental aesthetics, and Sheila Lintott, who has published widely in aesthetics, combine important historical essays on the appreciation of nature with the best contemporary research in the field. They begin with the scientific, artistic, and aesthetic foundations of current environmental beliefs and attitudes. Then they offer views on the conceptualization of nature and the various debates on how to properly and respectfully appreciate nature. The book introduces positive aesthetics, the belief that everything in nature is essentially beautiful, even the devastation caused by earthquakes or floods, and the essays in the final section explicitly bring together aesthetics, ethics, and environmentalism to explore the ways in which each might affect the others. Book jacket.
Lovely Landscape Quilts
Title | Lovely Landscape Quilts PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Geier |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2014-12-17 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 144023843X |
Create beautiful landscape quilts using strips and scraps with these 15 lovely projects! In Lovely Landscape Quilts, Cathy Geier walks you through the process of creating amazing landscape quilts using simple techniques that anyone can try. Learn how to find inspiration and choose you fabrics, how to design and lay out your quilt, and how to use angles to create skies, water, hills and mountains. Learn tricks for embellishing your quilts with applique, marker and fabric to create shadows and highlights that will give your landscape quilts depth and perspective. Finally, learn the tips for finishing and quilting before trying any of the 15 beautiful projects designed by Cathy.
Natural Beauty
Title | Natural Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Moore |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2007-08-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1460401409 |
Natural Beauty was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Title list for 2008! Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved in making aesthetic judgments about natural objects. It surveys historical and modern accounts of natural beauty and weaves elements derived from those accounts into a “syncretic theory” that centers on key features of aesthetic experience—specifically, features that sustain and reward attention. In this way, Moore’s theory sets itself apart from both the purely cognitive and the purely emotive approaches that have dominated natural aesthetics until now. Natural Beauty shows why aesthetic appreciation of works of art and aesthetic appreciation of nature can be mutually reinforcing; that is, how they are cooperative rather than rival enterprises. Moore also makes a compelling case for how and why the experience of natural beauty can contribute to the larger project of living a good life.
Aesthetics and Nature
Title | Aesthetics and Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Parsons |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2008-11-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0826496768 |
Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature.