Aesthetics and Environment : Variations on a Theme (Paperback)

Contents: Preface; Part I Environmental Aesthetics: A phenomenological aesthetics of environment; Aesthetic dimensions of environmental design; Down the garden path; The wilderness city: a study of metaphorical experience; An aesthetics of the coastal environment; The world from the water; Is there life in virtual space?; Is Greasy Lake a place?; Embodied music. Part II Social Aesthetics: The idea of a cultural aesthetic; The social evaluation of art; Subsidization of art as social policy; Morality and the artist: toward an ethics of art; Getting along beautifully: ideas for a social aesthetics. Index.