Arnold Berleant's Study Of Environmental Aesthetics

The rapid development of industrialization has brought about increasingly serious environmental problems.All kinds of severe environmental phenomena have forced people to face up to the existing environmental problems in society and actively seek solutions.Environmental aesthetics is generated and developed under such a social background.Get up.At the same time,the development and improvement of the aesthetics itself also incorporates the environment into its research field,and the environment is thus endowed with aesthetic value.Arnold Berleant is one of the important founders of contemporary Western environmental aesthetics.His aesthetic studies focused on the consideration and argumentation of aesthetic principles in the early stage,and later turned to the study of applied aesthetics such as environmental aesthetics and social aesthetics.His research on environmental aesthetics was based on the aesthetic principles of the early period,so he wanted to the overall understanding of environmental aesthetics should be traced back to his early aesthetic principles.After learning to absorb the "suspension" theory,body theory and Dewey's pragmatic aesthetic thoughts from the field of phenomenology,Berleant has formed its own theoretical system of participating aesthetics.Before studying his environmental aesthetics,it is necessary to clarify the relationship between environment,nature and art,which is very important for the perception of Berleant's special environmental concept.Berleant believes that the nature that is not involved in the traditional sense does not exist.Nature is the environment of human life.The extension of art also expands with the development of society and intersects with the environment,so he thinks that these three The concepts are mutually interpretable and indivisible.Aesthetic participation is the aesthetic model ofBerleant's special environmental aesthetics.The aesthetic field is the theoretical support of aesthetic participation.Artistic objects,perceivers,artists and performers are the four elements that are indispensable in the aesthetic field.Only these four elements coexist.Aesthetic participation has a premise.Aesthetic participation advocates that the appreciator enters the environment with a perceptual subject,emphasizing the complete integration of the subject and the environment.The presence,continuity and perceptual fusion of the body are the three characteristics of aesthetic participation.Berleant believes that describing aesthetics is the most appropriate way to study environmental aesthetics.It can describe our experience of the environment appropriately,and successfully convey the aesthetic experience of the viewer to the reader,deepening our understanding of the environmental and environmental experience.Berleant's environmental design and environmental criticism have added a practical dimension to its environmental aesthetics and provided specific theoretical guidance on the application of environmental aesthetics.Berleant's academic contribution to environmental aesthetics is undeniable,but the limitations of his thoughts cannot be ignored.The academic criticism of him is mostly focused on his participation model,pointing out the lack of subjective tendencies of aesthetic participation.