Title:
Aesthetics and environment : variations on a theme
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Publication Information:
Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate, 2005
ISBN:
9780754650775
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Summary
Summary
These essays comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of the environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of the environment such as the city, the shore, the water but also with the virtual environment and the social one.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Part I Environmental Aesthetics: A phenomenological aesthetics of environment |
| Aesthetic dimensions of environmental design |
| Down the garden path |
| The wilderness city: a study of metaphorical experience |
| An aesthetics of the coastal environment |
| The world from the water |
| Is there life in virtual space? |
| Is Greasy Lake a place? |
| Embodied music |
| Part II Social Aesthetics: The idea of a cultural aesthetic |
| The social evaluation of art |
| Subsidization of art as social policy |
| Morality and the artist: toward an ethics of art |
| Getting along beautifully: ideas for a social aesthetics |
| Index |
