Aesthetics For Life. W10: Nature Aesthetics - Environmental Approaches. Dr. Meagan Louie. Canary (2009) -Kate Macdowell

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1 Aesthetics For Life W10: Nature Aesthetics - Environmental Approaches Canary (2009) -Kate Macdowell Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - E. O. Wilson

2 Nature and Aesthetics II This Week: Nature and Aesthetics II Our Question:.. What do/should we appreciate,... when we appreciate nature?

3 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Review Stecker 2010.Last Week: Models for Appreciating NATURE M1. The Object Model (Stecker 2010) Natural objects: stones, shells, trees, as self-contained objects M2. The Landscape Model Landscapes/views M3. The Impressionist Model A landscape/view, at a particular moment in time

4 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Review Stecker 2010.Last Week: A problem for the OBJECT MODEL! M1. The Object Model (Stecker 2010 Natural objects: stones, shells, trees, as self-contained objects M2. The Landscape Model Landscapes/views M3. The Impressionist Model A landscape/view, at a particular moment in time

5 Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model Stecker Q: Is this NATURE? Exotic Seashell Bosenok

6 Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model Stecker Q: Is this NATURE?

7 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model Stecker Q: Is this NATURE? Butterfly Display Case at Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., by Rodd Halstead from

8 Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model Stecker Q: Is this NATURE? photo: getty

9 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model. Q: Are these NATURE?.. According to the Object Model,. these are nature! Stecker 2010

10 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics H1: The Object Model Stecker Q: Are these NATURE?.. According to Environmental Models,(and our intuitions). these are NOT nature!

11 Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models Stecker Environmental Models: This is NATURE!

12 Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models Stecker Environmental Models: This is NATURE!

13 Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models Stecker Environmental Models: This is NATURE!

14 Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models Stecker Environmental Models: This is NATURE!

15 Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models Stecker Q: Is this NATURE? Environmental Models:. Natural objects must be appreciated in their natural environment!

16 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models. Stecker 2010 Q: Is this NATURE? X Environmental Models:. Natural objects must be appreciated in their natural environment!

17 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics Environmental Models. Stecker 2010 Q: Is this NATURE? X Environmental Models:. Natural objects must be appreciated in their natural environment!

18 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

19 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

20 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

21 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions.

22 Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? Recall the Landscape Model? i.e., you don t appreciate an entire object/set of objects. but a particular VIEW of an object/set of objects

23 Nature & Aesthetics II: M2 The Landscape Model Stecker Eg: Hokusai s series of landscape prints. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Great Wave off Kanagawa

24 Nature & Aesthetics II: M2 The Landscape Model Stecker Eg: Hokusai s series of landscape prints. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Sundai, Edo

25 Nature & Aesthetics II: M2 The Landscape Model Stecker Eg: Hokusai s series of landscape prints. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Cushion Pine at Aoyama

26 Nature & Aesthetics II: M2 The Landscape Model Stecker Eg: Hokusai s series of landscape prints. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Inume Pass, Koushuu

27 Nature & Aesthetics II: M2 The Landscape Model Stecker Eg: Hokusai s series of landscape prints. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Eijiri in Suruga Province

28 Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Landscape Model i.e., you don t appreciate an entire object/set of objects. but a particular VIEW of an object/set of objects

29 Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Landscape Model i.e., you don t appreciate an entire object/set of objects,. but a particular VIEW of an object/set of objects Recall the Impressionist Model? i.e., you don t appreciate a view,. but a view at a particular TIME (an IMPRESSION ).

30 Nature & Aesthetics M3: The Impressionist Model Stecker

31 Nature & Aesthetics M3: The Impressionist Model Stecker Photographer: Dima Chatrov, accessed at

32 Nature & Aesthetics M3: The Impressionist Model Stecker 2010.

33 1 Introduction Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach.. Stecker 2010 Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Landscape Model i.e., you don t appreciate an entire object/set of objects,. but a particular VIEW of an object/set of objects The Impressionist Model i.e., you don t appreciate a view,. but a view at a particular TIME (an IMPRESSION )

34 Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Landscape Model i.e., you don t appreciate an entire object/set of objects,. but a particular VIEW of an object/set of objects The Impressionist Model i.e., you don t appreciate a view,. but a view at a particular TIME (an IMPRESSION ) The Immersion Approach: You don t appreciate an impression,. but a SEQUENCE of changing impressions & views

35 Nature & Aesthetics II: The Immersion Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1: The Immersion Approach: You don t appreciate an impression,. but a SEQUENCE of changing impressions & views eg., The sort of thing you d shoot with a Go Pro - ( The Beauty of the [sic] Nature - balatarinn) - ( This is Our Home - Tim Janssens)

36 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

37 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

38 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker

39 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates Natural Process behind Sedimentary Rock Layers 1. Erosion 2. Deposition 3. Compaction 4. Cementation. This knowledge heightens our appreciation

40 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates Natural Process behind Sedimentary Rock Layers 1. Erosion 2. Deposition 3. Compaction 4. Cementation. This knowledge heightens our appreciation

41 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker

42 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates ATA Walerian Walawski Dwight Kuhn

43 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates We know that the DNA of the snake determines the pattern of scales Knowledge heightens (or may be necessary for) proper appreciation

44 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker 2010 photo credit: zenek brzeszcz

45 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates Rainbows involve the refraction of light through millions of water droplets Different wavelengths refract at different angles, so we get bands of colour in the ROYGBIV pattern Knowledge heightens (or may be necessary for) proper appreciation somewhere-over-the-rainbow-photons-fly/

46 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H2: The Order Appreciation Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated terms of the order/patterns it creates (ii) Knowledge of what causes patterns is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: Is this compatible Kant s subjectivity criterion? i.e., an aesthetic judgement is felt and not calculated

47 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H2: The Order Appreciation Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated terms of the order/patterns it creates (ii) Knowledge of what causes patterns is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: Kant s universality criterion?

48 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H2: The Order Appreciation Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated terms of the order/patterns it creates (ii) Knowledge of what causes patterns is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: Kant s disinterestedness. criterion?

49 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H2: The Order Appreciation Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated terms of the order/patterns it creates (ii) Knowledge of what causes patterns is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: What about Kant s 4th criterion? - that an aesthetic judgement triggers the imagination and intellect?

50 Nature and Aesthetics II: H2 Order Appreciation Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H2: The Order Appreciation Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated terms of the order/patterns it creates (ii) Knowledge of what causes patterns is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: Is ORDER APPRECIATION. an example of a prescriptive approach, or a descriptive approach?

51 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

52 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach as an Ecological System with balanced relationships of dependence/sustenance/conflict

53 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker 2010 Arctic Food Web : Image credits: Imatatics Inc. Canadian Museum of Nature;

54 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? The Ecological Approach Nature should be appreciated as an Ecological System In terms of the balance/harmony of the relationships of. dependence,. sustenance and. conflict in a natural landscape.

55 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker 2010 Great Barrier Reef: Dr. Meagan Louie

56 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker

57 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker 2010 Casas-Crivillé & Valera 2005: Bee Eater s as Ecosystem Engineers They dig burrows to nest, and thus are part of the natural erosion process Other animals like snakes and beetles use old bee-eater nests, thus bee-eaters supply habitats to other organisms European Bee-Eater: wiki/file:european_bee_eater.jpg

58 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H3: The Ecological Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated in terms of its balanced relationships (ii) Knowledge of these relationships is key to aesthetic appreciation The ecological relationships can be viewed as a subtype of the PATTERNS that the Order Appreciation Approach requires

59 Nature and Aesthetics II: H3 Ecological Approach Stecker Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H3: The Ecological Approach: (i) Nature should be appreciated in terms of its balanced relationships (ii) Knowledge of these relationships is key to aesthetic appreciation Q: Is the ECOLOGICAL approach. an example of a prescriptive approach, or a descriptive approach?

60 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach In terms of the balance/harmony of the relationships of dependence, sustenance and conflict in a natural landscape.

61 Nature and Aesthetics II: Lecture Preview Stecker 2010.This Week: Three Environmental Approaches.. Q: How should we appreciate NATURE? H1. The Immersion Approach Stecker 2010 Wander through it, take in constantly shifting views/impressions H2. The Order Appreciation Approach In terms of the order/patterns it creates H3. The Ecological Approach In terms of the balance/harmony of the relationships of dependence, sustenance and conflict in a natural landscape.

62 Art Inspired by Nature 3.1 Art Inspired by Nature 3.2 Instagram Homework.ART Inspired by nature glass-specimens-steffen-dam/ 4 ephemeral-environmental-sculptures-evoke-cycles-of-nature/ 5... Find some ART inspired by nature.... Is it compatible with the aesthetic approaches discussed today? Why or why not?

63 3.1 Art Inspired by Nature 3.2 Instagram Homework Instagram Homework: Nature Aesthetics II Instagram Homework: OPTION ONE 1 Find/create an image/video capturing some aspect of nature, post it. (CREDIT SOURCE!!!) 2 Analyze your post according to one of the three environmental approaches - explain your analysis in your comment! 3 Remember to post your name and student code!

64 3.1 Art Inspired by Nature 3.2 Instagram Homework Instagram Homework: Nature Aesthetics II Instagram Homework: OPTION TWO 1 Find/create a work of art inspired by nature; post it. (CREDIT SOURCE!!!) 2 Does the work of art reflect any of the environmental approaches to nature aesthetics? Explain how in your comment! 3 Remember to post your name and student code!

65 I Casas-Crivillé, A & F Valera The european bee-eater (merops apiaster) as an ecosystem engineer in arid environments. Journal of Arid Environments 60(2) Stecker, Robert Aesthetics and the philosophy of art: An introduction. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.