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List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements; Introduction: aestheticsand the environment; Part I The appreciation of nature; I The aesthetics ofnature, A brief historical overview; A brief overview of contemporarypositions; The natural environmental model: some further ramifications;Notes; 2 Understanding and aesthetic experience; Aesthetic experience on theMississippi; Formalism and aesthetic experience; Disinterestedness andaesthetic experience; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Formal qualities in the naturalenvironment; Formal qualities and formalism; Formal qualities in current workin environmental aesthetics Background on the significance assigned to formalqualities; Formal qualities in the natural environment; Conclusion; Notes; 4Appreciation and the natural environment; The appreciation of art; Someartistic models for the appreciation of nature; An environmental model forthe appreciation of nature; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Nature, aesthetic judgment,and objectivity; Nature and objectivity; Walton's position; Nature andculture; Nature and Walton's psychological claim; The correct categories ofnature; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Nature and positive aesthetics; The developmentof positive aesthetics; Nature appreciation as non-aesthetic; Positiveaesthetics and sublimity; Positive aesthetics and theism; Science andaesthetic appreciation of nature; Science and appropriate aestheticappreciation of nature; Science and positive aesthetics; Notes; 7Appreciating art and appreciating nature; The concept of appreciation;Appreciating Art: design and appreciation; Appreciating Art: orderappreciation; Appreciation nature: design appreciation; Appreciating nature:order appreciation; Conclusion; Notes; Part II; Landscapes, art andarchitecture; 8 Between nature and art; The question of aesthetic relevance;Objects of appreciation and aesthetic necessity; Between nature and art:Appreciating other things; Notes; 9 Environmental aesthetics and the dilemmaof aesthetic education; The eyesaw argument; The dilemma of aestheticeducation; The natural; The aesthetically pleasing; Life values and theeyesore argument; Conclusion; Notes; 10 is environmental art an aestheticaffront to nature? Environmental works of art; Environmental art as anaesthetic affront; Some replies to the affront charge; Some concludingexamples; Notes; 11 The aesthetic appreciation of Japanese gardens; Thedialectical nature of Japanese gardens; The new agricultural landscapes;Difficult aesthetic appreciation and novelty; 12 Appreciating the newagricultural landscapes; Traditional agricultural landscapes; The newagricultural landscapes; Difficult aesthetic appreciation and novelty;Appreciating the new agricultural landscapes; Conclusion; Notes; 13Existence, location, and function: the appreciation of architecture;Architecture and art; To be or not to be: Hamlet and Tolstoy; Here I stand;to fit or not to fit; Form follows function and fit follows function,Function, location, existence: the path of appreciation; Notes; 14 Landscapeand literature; Hillerman's landscapes and aesthetic relevance; Classicformalism and postmodern landscape appreciation; Formal descriptions andordinary descriptions; Other factual landscape descriptions; The analogy withart argument; Nominal descriptions; Imaginative descriptions and culturalembeddedness; Mythological landscape descriptions; Literary landscapedescriptions; The analogy with art argument again; Conclusion; Notes; Index.