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Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
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Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics Paperback - 2009

by Carlson, Allen

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Very Good condition. Bright and shiny. Flat, uncreased spine. Crease to one corner of the front wrap. NO chips, tears, or fading. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 12 photos and prints. Printed on acid-free paper. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original full color pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "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 area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.". First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv, 188pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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  • Title Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
  • Author Carlson, Allen
  • Illustrator NOT a library discard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing of the First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good condition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 029355
  • ISBN 9780231140416 / 023114041X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Nature (Aesthetics), Landscape assessment
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008023538
  • Dewey Decimal Code 111.85

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  • Choice, 07/01/2009, Page 0

About the author

Allen Carlson is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture and, with Glenn Parsons, coauthor of Functional Beauty, as well as coeditor of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, The Aesthetics of Human Environments, and The Aesthetics of Natural Environments.

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