The Aesthetics of Environment

238 Pages·1992·13.11 MB·English

by  Arnold Berleant

The Aesthetics of Environment
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The
Aesthetics
of
EnvironDlent
Arnold Berleant
Temple Univ(~rsity Press
Philadelphia
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122
Copyright © 1992 by Temple University. All rights reserved
Published 1992
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for Information
Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.48-1984 00
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berleant, Arnold, 1932-
The aesthetics of environment I Arnold Berleant.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-87722-993-7 (cloth)
1. Landscape assessment. 2. Environment (Aesthetics) 3. Nature
(Aesthetics) I. Title.
GF90.B471992
304·2'3-dc20
To Barbara Sandrisser

I am what is around me.
--Wallace Stevens, "Theory"

Contents
Preface Xl
Acknowledgments xv
One Environment as a Challenge to Aesthetics
Two The Aesthetic Sense of Environment 14
Three Descriptive Aesthetics 25
Four Scenes from a Connecticut Landscape:
Four Studies in Descriptive Aesthetics 40
Five Aesthetic Paradigms for an Urban Ecology 57
Six Cultivating an Urban Aesthetic 82
Seven Designing Outer Space 99
Eight The Museum of Art as a Participatory
Environment 114
Nine Environmental Criticism 126
Ten Environment as an Aesthetic Paradigm 145
Eleven The Aesthetics of Art and Nature 160
Twelve Reclaiming the American Landscape 176
Notes 191
Index 209