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The Art in Knowing a Landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Arnold Berleant
Arnold Berleant*
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Long Island University, USA
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Arnold Berleant, P.O. Box 52, Castine, ME 04421, USA. Email: ab@contempaesthetics.org
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Abstract

The arts can contribute to an intimate, engaged experience of landscape, and this process can itself be construed as an art. Experiencing landscape through the arts and as an art, the art of environmen-tal appreciation, offers a clearer understanding of landscape, of environment, and of art, as well as what it is to “know” in the context of environmental experience. This essay offers a new fabric for understanding the relation of art and landscape by combining a fresh understanding of four threads: art, environment, landscape, and knowing through appreciation. It shows how the loose-knit texture they form can be spread metaphorically over a particular landscape in such a way that the landscape will fill the fabric and the fabric integrate the landscape.

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Diogenes , Volume 59 , Issue 1-2: Why New Aesthetics? , May 2012 , pp. 52 - 62
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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