Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics

by Allen Carlson

Book Overview

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes.

Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114041X
• ISBN13: 9780231140416
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"