Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts

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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.

"As collections go, Landscape, Natural Beauty, and the Arts is of a high standard, and it paves the way for growth in natural aesthetics." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Editors' acknowledgments
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1 - Nature, fine arts, and aesthetics
pp 1-42
- By Salim Kemal, University of Dundee, Ivan Gaskell, Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
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2 - Natural beauty without metaphysics
pp 43-64
- By T. J. Diffey, University of Sussex
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3 - Trivial and serious in aesthetic appreciation of nature
pp 65-80
- By Ronald W. Hepburn, University of Edinburgh
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4 - The public prospect and the private view: the politics of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
pp 81-102
- By John Barrell, University of Sussex
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5 - Landscape in the cinema: the rhythms of the world and the camera
pp 103-126
- By P. Adams Sitney, Princeton University
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6 - The touch of landscape
pp 127-138
- By Don Gifford, Williams College
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7 - Desert and ice: ambivalent aesthetics
pp 139-157
- By Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin
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8 - Gardens, earthworks, and environmental art
pp 158-182
- By Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri, St. Louis
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9 - Comparing natural and artistic beauty
pp 183-198
- By Donald W. Crawford, University of California, Santa Barbara
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10 - Appreciating art and appreciating nature
pp 199-227
- By Allen Carlson, University of Alberta
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11 - The aesthetics of art and nature
pp 228-243
- By Arnold Berleant, Long Island University, C. W. Post
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12 - On being moved by nature: between religion and natural history
pp 244-266
- By Noël Carroll, University of Wisconsin
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Index
pp 267-278
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of contributors
pp viii-viii

Editors' acknowledgments
pp ix-x

1 - Nature, fine arts, and aesthetics
pp 1-42

2 - Natural beauty without metaphysics
pp 43-64

3 - Trivial and serious in aesthetic appreciation of nature
pp 65-80

4 - The public prospect and the private view: the politics of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
pp 81-102

5 - Landscape in the cinema: the rhythms of the world and the camera
pp 103-126

6 - The touch of landscape
pp 127-138

7 - Desert and ice: ambivalent aesthetics
pp 139-157

8 - Gardens, earthworks, and environmental art
pp 158-182

9 - Comparing natural and artistic beauty
pp 183-198

10 - Appreciating art and appreciating nature
pp 199-227

11 - The aesthetics of art and nature
pp 228-243

12 - On being moved by nature: between religion and natural history
pp 244-266

Index
pp 267-278

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