Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts This volume offers probing studies of the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 07 December 1995
- Format: Paperback 292 pages
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- Categories: Philosophy | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9780521558549 ISBN 10: 0521558549
- Sales rank: 373,323
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Full description for Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts
Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts offers probing studies of the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature. Each chapter refines and expands the terms of discussion, and together they enrich the debate with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. To explore the interrelation between our conceptions of nature, beauty and art, the contributors consider the social construction of nature, the determination of our appreciation by artistic media, and the duality of nature's determining in gardening. Showing that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature, the volume occasions questions of the distinction and relation between art and nature generally, and culminates in a set of philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and emotion in the aesthetic appreciation of nature.
