Landscape, Natural Beauty, and the Arts

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Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell
Cambridge University Press, 1993 - 278 páginas
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 establish a framework, T. J. Diffey explores a conception of natural beauty free from metaphysical commitments, while R. W. Hepburn considers what constitutes seriousness and triviality in the appreciation of nature. Both explain their claims by reference to art. The next papers investigate the determination of natural beauty by the arts. John Barrell analyzes the social construction of nature and the viewing subject in eighteenth-century paintings, and P. Adams Sitney clarifies how another medium - film - construes nature and determines our appreciation

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Kemal-University of Dundee

Ivan Gaskell, a specialist in seventeenth centruy dutch art, is a Fellow of Wolfson College and a member of the faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.

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