Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us: An Introduction to the Regions of Aesthetic Experience

by Robert E Wood and Robert E. Wood

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the comprehensive set of eidetic features that limn the space of the art. It draws upon artists' statements, writings of key figures in the history of philosophy--including Plato,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319570897
• ISBN13: 9783319570891
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"