About Inspirational Landscapes: The Australian Heritage Commission is developing a project called "Inspirational Landscapes". The project is quite relevant to ...
Why Constable? Because John Constable was one of the earliest Western European artists to study changing light and atmospheric conditions so closely,...
In the Photos and Paintings Sections we have added a new Album including paintings of two English landscape painters, Constable and Turner. The materials are...
" The fundamental connection berween humanity and Nature is at the core of landscape's appeal as an artistic subject. Thus it might be argued that landscape...
We have yet to discuss more in-depth what is meant by "landscape appreciation".One way of approaching the subject is to see what we mean by "landscape" and by...
"The approaches of the traditional disciplines, the natural sciences and the humanities tend to merge today with regard to the landscape since there is...
Paul McAlister, a very talented landscape photographer, has just joined this group. Samples of his Irish Landscapes may be seen at the Photos Section (l.h.s....
As a new member I'd like to bring up a new subject for discussion: the connection between music and landscapes. The connection between painting or photography...
We have added a new album to our collection: CLOUDS. To start with we have included some outstanding Cloudscapes photographed by Bob Tilden.We thank him for...
Tilden's photos of clouds that appear in you new album "Clouds" are quite outstanding, can you get some more? Not a bad idea also to include paintings of...
Dear All, I have just been through the site for the first time in detail. Thanks to Jorge for asking me to join. I am not a geographer, but a biologist and...
Re., the preceeding Post from H. Washington: I think it would be a jolly good idea if Group Members write a few lines about themselves so that we get to know...
Prof. Allen Carlson, in his book Aesthetics and the Environment, reviews a number of approaches or models which could be, in my opinion, quite useful in...
In the following excerpt Prof. Carlson raises some criticisms of the Engagement Model: " The engagement model calls for the absorption of the appreciator into...
When discussing the reality of wilderness or of landscapes in general we ought to distinguish between what we may term the "physical reality" of a given place...
Eddington in his post argues for cultural relativism in fine postmodernist style. Of course the experience of large natural areas (= wilderness) will vary from...
My thanks to Jorge for suggesting that 'A sense of Wonder' is an interesting approach. However, I have never myself defined it as being any particular model,...
Dear Group Members: A Website has been added to our Yahoo site. From now on we'll be able to publish there Essays written by Group Members as well as extended...
Haydn Washington in his post of June 5, raises amongst others, an issue which I think it's central to landscape appreciation, that is, the apparently opposed...
Yup - I agree - ambivalence (for once) would appear to be useful. AMS ... From: jorgeg34 To: landscape-appreciation@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004...
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I think what Jorge raises is interesting, though I am ambivalent about its truth! Jorge says: 'Equally hard to dispute, as the contention that the aesthetic ...
There are a couple of points I want to raise in response to Hayden’s posting that comes to mind around the idea of disinterest and landscape. You’re right...
I don't like the term ambivalence. It has a negative connotation as when we're not sure of what attitude to adopt in front of something. I wish some of the...
The new "Landscape of the Month", in the front page of our Website, is a painting by Sheng Mou (circa 1330) . (The site may be accessed by clicking on the...
A new picture has been hanged on the wall of the front page of this group's website at: http://www.freewebs.com/jorgeg/ It is a watercolor by Dr.Catherine...
Polonius asks Hamlet – What do you read, my lord?. To which Hamlet responds:Words, words, words. Polonius further enquires: -- What is thematter, my lord?; ...
Horatio: I truly sympathise with your complaints.I agree that is not easy to find one's way around the subject, because of it being overcrowed with concepts...
Greeting from Tasmania. I don't know this group well yet, but I feel sure that some of you would be interested in an international nature writing prize which I...
Finding the exchanges apposite to ones embodied, ensouled and enlandscaped personhood. One of the interesting way to unpack some of these ongoing issues is to...
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