Landscape Aesthetics

Author : Jens Andermann,Lisa Blackmore,Dayron Carrillo Morell
Publisher : Diaphanes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Environment (Aesthetics).
ISBN : 3035800537

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Natura by Jens Andermann,Lisa Blackmore,Dayron Carrillo Morell Pdf

Entangled with the interconnected logics of coloniality and modernity, the landscape idea has long been a vehicle for ordering human-nature relations. Yet at the same time, it has also constituted a utopian surface onto which to project a space-time 'beyond' modernity and capitalism. Amid the advancing techno-capitalization of the living and its spatial supports in transgenic seed monopolies, fracking and deep sea drilling, biopiracy, geo-engineering, aesthetic-activist practices have offered particular kinds of insight into the epistemological, representational, and juridical framings of the natural environment. This book asks in what ways have recent bio and eco-artistic turns moved on from the subject/object ontologies of the landscape-form? Moving from botanical explorations of early modernity, through the legacies of mid-twentieth century landscape design, up to artistic experimental recodings of New World nature in the 1960s and 1970s and to present struggles for environmental rights and against the precarization of the living, the critical essays and visual contributions included in Natura attempt to push thinking past fixed landscape forms through interdisciplinary encounters that encompass analyses of architectural sites and artworks; ecocritical perspectives on literary texts; experimental place-making practices; and the creation of material and visual ecologies that recognise the agency of non-human worlds.

Author : Allen Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231140409

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Nature and Landscape by Allen Carlson Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas R. Ryan,Edward Allen,Patrick J. Rand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470904626

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Detailing for Landscape Architects by Thomas R. Ryan,Edward Allen,Patrick J. Rand Pdf

Based upon the best-selling book Architectural Detailing by Edward Allen and Patrick Rand, Landscape Architectural Detailing applies the same organization to the three major concerns of the landscape architecture detailer—function, constructability, and aesthetics. Richly illustrated, this book approaches landscape architecture detailing in a systematic manner and provides a framework for analyzing existing details and devising new ones. Landscape Architectural Detailing includes material on details related to aesthetics, water drainage and movement, structures, construction assemblies, sustainable resources, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951P00516119J

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Landscape Aesthetics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arnar Árnason
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857456717

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Landscapes Beyond Land by Arnar Árnason Pdf

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.

Author : Steven C. Bourassa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471944874

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The Aesthetics of Landscape by Steven C. Bourassa Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore from the points of view of philosophy, psychology, art, history and planning, the idea of landscape beauty, and to construct an integrated theory of landscape aesthetics. While pleasurable (or otherwise) responses to places are one of the most common human emotional experiences, the complex of biological, cultural and psychological reasons that shape our feelings toward landscape are rarely explored to establish why we like or dislike particular scenes. Bourassa offers a new articulation of ideas to address this question.

Author : Raffaele Milani
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773575783

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Art of the Landscape by Raffaele Milani Pdf

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.

Author : Jack L. Nasar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521429161

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Environmental Aesthetics by Jack L. Nasar Pdf

How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.

Author : Elisabetta Di Stefano,Carsten Friberg,Max Ryynänen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030778312

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Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape by Elisabetta Di Stefano,Carsten Friberg,Max Ryynänen Pdf

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.

Author : Stephen Richard John Sheppard,Howard W. Harshaw
Publisher : CABI
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780851995007

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Forests and Landscapes by Stephen Richard John Sheppard,Howard W. Harshaw Pdf

Forests are an important component in the visual appeal of landscapes. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of this subject among foresters and environmental scientists. Increasingly, forest resource managers must consider the aesthetic consequences of timber harvesting operations and management plans. This book is the first to address this subject area. It consists of 15 chapters and is divided into four parts. It brings together not only foresters and ecologists, but also landscape architects, psychologists and philosophers. It should therefore attract a wide readership. Contributors are leading research workers in their subjects, from Canada, the USA and UK.

Author : Nancy Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135939281

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Landscapes of Privilege by Nancy Duncan Pdf

James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015035735755

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Living in the Landscape by Arnold Berleant Pdf

"Many more of our decisions to conserve nature have been motivated by environmental aesthetics than by environmental ethics, more by beauty than by duty. This book by Arnold Berleant is therefore especially welcome and important. It will help to advance an inquiry that has been badly neglected but is sorely needed". -- J. Baird Callicott, author of Earth's Insights. "In the past thirty years, Arnold Berleant has been calling attention to the ethics and aesthetics of the environment. He is indeed America's latter-day Henry David Thoreau". -- E. F. Kaelin, author of An Aesthetics for Art Educators.

Author : Salim Kemal,Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521558549

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Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts by Salim Kemal,Ivan Gaskell Pdf

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.

Author : Alberto L. Siani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231559966

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Landscape Aesthetics by Alberto L. Siani Pdf

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these categories as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities. Alberto L. Siani argues that the concept of landscape helps us overcome deeply ingrained oppositions, such as nature and culture, spirit and flesh, or the environment and the human. Landscape represents the intersection of these categories and therefore provides a helpful vantage point on contemporary predicaments that cannot be understood within dualistic frameworks. An engaged aesthetics shows that landscapes are not simply ways of seeing the world but ways of being in the world, offering practical guidance for inhabiting places ethically. Landscape Aesthetics sheds new light on issues spanning art and its interpretation, environmentalism, temporality, lived spaces, justice, education, and interdisciplinarity. Bringing together a wide range of sources across philosophy and other disciplines as well as personal experience, Siani reveals the key role of landscape and aesthetics in responding to the pressing crises we face today.

Author : Jiahua Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015043807117

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A Comparative Study of Landscape Aesthetics by Jiahua Wu Pdf

To link theory with practice, the relationship between landscape both painted and designed, and aesthetic thinking are discussed. The discussion develops with reference to the historical, cultural, philosophical and technical contexts of both East and West. Central objects of the study are key issues such as Romanticism of the English school and Tao in Chinese landscape. This systematic study of the language system of landscape art, design and education is of high value in the area of environmental development, which substantially links theory with environmental art and design, and foreshadows the future of landscape aesthetic research.