Landscape Appreciation

Theories since the Cultural Turn

By: David Jacques

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Paperback | 2 December 2019

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Explanations for what makes one landscape scene preferred over another - formalistic, cultural and ecological - continue to be generated by landscape architects and land managers, philosophers and psychologists.This is needed for planning in the countryside and the protection of natural scenery, yet agreement still eludes us. This book does not favour any particular theory, but critiques the many theories seen over the last half-century. It informs readers of the main lines of argument so that they can make up their own minds. Part one, on post-war aesthetics, examines ideas about the unconscious, holism, overarching 'metanarratives', and the search for objectivity. Part two describes the consequences on the 'cultural turn' in that period, giving rise to new theories taking the human as reference. Cultural geography, cultural landscapes, changes in methods of assessment and some new ideas on landscape design are set in this context. Ecocentrism proposed a very different approach. The final part looks into the philosophical input, expanding upon 'environmental aesthetics'. It concludes with a more down-to-earth analysis of 'satisfactions' from immediate formal qualities, the sublime, meanings, and beauty. The balanced, didactic approach taken will make this a standard text for all those in teaching and in landscape practice.

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'Landscape Appreciation: Theories since the Cultural Turn, the product of a lifetime's study, masterfully surveys the work of an enormous range of students of landscape aesthetics, relates it to ethics, metaphysics, sociology and other disciplines, and coordinates the vast range of contributions from various fields into a useful compendium for both scholars and landscape professionals... It will also prove of inestimable value over the next 20 or 50 years to those engaged in the struggle to defend and protect cherished or otherwise important landscapes of many kinds.' Mara Miller, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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