1st Edition
Chinese Environmental Aesthetics Wangheng Chen, Wuhan University, China, translated by Feng Su, Hunan Normal University, China
Preface By Gerald Cipriani Introduction 1. Environmental Aesthetics in Ancient China 2. Traditional Chinese Conceptions of Environmental Beauty 3. Gardens, Palaces and Agricultural Landscapes 4. Beauty, Nature and the Environment 5. Beauty and The Agricultural Environment 6. Beauty and The Urban Environment 7. Concluding Remarks The Significance of Environmental Aesthetics Today Bibliography
Biography
Wangheng Chen is Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University, PR China.
Feng Su is lecturer in history and theory of art at Hunan Normal University, China.
Gerald Cipriani teaches philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).
"Chen’s thinking reaches a clarity that is inspiring and practical...This book is for philosophers, architects, landscape architects, artists who seeking to differentiate kinds of beauty (e.g., natural, artistic, and environmental), and community activists who work to save landscapes and historical sites. Chen’s references to Chinese shanshui painting and the inclusion of many images in black and white will interest students of world culture and the history of Asian art. This book will benefit all who seek to balance the advantages of science and new technologies with a spiritual well-being that comes from cultivating an intimate unity with the natural environment."
David Brubaker, Wuhan Textile University, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy
