Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editors' acknowledgments
- 1 Nature, fine arts, and aesthetics
- 2 Natural beauty without metaphysics
- 3 Trivial and serious in aesthetic appreciation of nature
- 4 The public prospect and the private view: the politics of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
- 5 Landscape in the cinema: the rhythms of the world and the camera
- 6 The touch of landscape
- 7 Desert and ice: ambivalent aesthetics
- 8 Gardens, earthworks, and environmental art
- 9 Comparing natural and artistic beauty
- 10 Appreciating art and appreciating nature
- 11 The aesthetics of art and nature
- 12 On being moved by nature: between religion and natural history
- Index
Editors' acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editors' acknowledgments
- 1 Nature, fine arts, and aesthetics
- 2 Natural beauty without metaphysics
- 3 Trivial and serious in aesthetic appreciation of nature
- 4 The public prospect and the private view: the politics of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
- 5 Landscape in the cinema: the rhythms of the world and the camera
- 6 The touch of landscape
- 7 Desert and ice: ambivalent aesthetics
- 8 Gardens, earthworks, and environmental art
- 9 Comparing natural and artistic beauty
- 10 Appreciating art and appreciating nature
- 11 The aesthetics of art and nature
- 12 On being moved by nature: between religion and natural history
- Index
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- Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993