Aesthetic experience in forests
Date
1998
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Wiley-Blackwell (Firm), publisher
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Abstract
Forests are aesthetically challenging because of the sense of deep time, experiencing an archetype of creation. Forests are both perennial and dynamic. Appropriate aesthetic encounter requires knowledge of scientific natural history, necessary though not sufficient for intense, multisensory, participatory engagement when persons, immersed in forests, live their aesthetic experiences. Forests, although naturalized, are experienced as sublime, evoking the sense of the sacred. Aesthetic appreciation in forests radically differs from that appropriate for artworks.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Invited address at "The Aesthetics of the Forest," the Second International Conference on Landscape Aesthetics, Lusto, Punkaharju, Finland, June 10-13, 1996.
Invited address at "The Aesthetics of the Forest," the Second International Conference on Landscape Aesthetics, Lusto, Punkaharju, Finland, June 10-13, 1996.
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Subject
aesthetic engagement
sublime
forests
archetype
humans
scientific appreciation