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Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us

Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us : An Introduction to the Regions of Aesthetic Experience

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This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the comprehensive set of eidetic features that limn the space of the art. It draws upon artists' statements, writings of key figures in the history of philosophy--including Plato, Hegel, Dewey, and Heidegger-and writings from various commentators on art. This volume is unique in its systematic and phenomenological approach, and in how it addresses aesthetics writ large.
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Product details

  • Paperback | 287 pages
  • 148 x 210 x 16mm | 3,949g
  • Cham, Switzerland
  • English
  • Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
  • 25 Tables, color; 26 Illustrations, color; XVI, 287 p. 26 illus. in color.
  • 3319860747
  • 9783319860749
  1. Categories:
  2. Art Books
  3. Philosophy: Aesthetics
  4. Philosophy Of Religion

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This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the comprehensive set of eidetic features that limn the space of the art. It draws upon artists' statements, writings of key figures in the history of philosophy--including Plato, Hegel, Dewey, and Heidegger--and writings from various commentators on art. This volume is unique in its systematic and phenomenological approach, and in how it addresses aesthetics writ large.
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Table of contents

1. Introduction.2. Aesthetics of Nature3. Domestic Landscaping4. On Architecture5. On Sculpture6. Painting.7. On Music8. On Literature9. On Film10. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life11. Epilogue: Kierkegaard on the Aesthetic Life.
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About Robert E. Wood

Robert E. Wood is professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas, USA.
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