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Rural Landscape as an Aesthetic Object
LHOTSKÁ, Karolina
The diploma thesis aims to define the rural landscape as a specific aesthetic object in comparison with a different type of landscape - the wilderness. The starting material is the theoretical perspective of one of the most important environmental aestheticians of today, Allen Carlson. The thesis first summarizes his process how we reach an appreciation of not only agricultural landscapes, and then it subsequently develops a history of the aesthetic appreciation of rural landscapes and wilderness. The thesis also expand the not very broad field of interest in the specifics of aesthetic appreciation of rural or agricultural landscapes in this country and thus contribute to functional landscape planning with regard to its aesthetic aspects.
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Allen Carlson's Environmental Aesthetics and Edward Bullough's psychical Distance
KRATOCHVÍL ŠMAJCLOVÁ, Kateřina
The main theme of this bachelor thesis is introduction of enviromental aestetics by Allen Carlson and theory of psychical distance by Edward Bullough. Attention is especially payed to the methods of appreciating aesthetics obejcts and different ways of seeing aesthetic experience. Analysis is made mainly on Carlson's refusal of idea of disinterestedness and idea of concept of psychical distance and their marking as not suitable for aesthetic appreciation of the environment.
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The Environmental Aesthetics of Arnold Berleant
Lahovská, Kristýna ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
The aim of this dissertation is focusing on environmental aesthetics of Arnold Berleant. Firstly we concentrated on his theoretical aesthetics opinions and then we passed to use them on field of environmental aesthetics. To draw a comparison we used writings of another American aesthetician, Allen Carlson. In sphere of Berleant's theoretical aesthetics opinions it is not possible to omit concepts of aesthetical experience, value and social factor. These points are important ideas of aesthetics of engagement, which we would like to present. As useful for environmental aesthetics we also see Berleant evaluation of negative and positive aesthetics values. In case of Allen Carlson we use several models in the field of theoretical aesthetics. The author assessments the functionality of these models for environmental aesthetics. The last point of this dissertation is focusing on a certain type of environment, to architecture and "Disney World", respective. In this field we wanted to demonstrate how the Berleant works with certain type of environment. Allen Carlson chooses as certain type of environment American farms. He concentrates on point how these farms have changed during one century. KEYWORDS: Arnold Berleant, Allen Carlson, environmental aesthetics, aesthetics value, aesthetics experience
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Appreciation of Natural Beauty from the Point of View of Contemporary Aesthetic Theory.
CHEJN, Vilém
Annotation: My bachelor thesis is focused on the basic outline of ideas and concepts within the field of aesthetics of nature. It justifies the specificity of the aesthetic experience of nature. The work points out the distinction between art and nature while trying to highlight unifying feature of the aesthetic field (which is the variant of disinterested attitude as a detachement from ordinary interpretative frameworks) by comparing several concepts dealing with the aesthetic of nature. It also criticizes some of the concepts and tries to prove their certain one-sidedness. At the end it shows a possible way of future aesthetic considerations of the aesthetics of nature, which could be intrusion of nature and cultural frameworks.
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