The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of environment such as the city, the shore, the water and the garden, but also with the virtual environment and the social one.

Autorentext

Arnold Berleant

Inhalt

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.