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Current neuroscience discloses that all emotional feeling originates as movement. Kinesthesia, our sixth sense, begins with movement of muscle cells and ends as emotion. Depth perception, which depends on movement, is always feeling-laden. To be expressive, art must somehow move our bodies.
Studies of expressive dance demonstrate that we unconsciously model observed movements, duplicating in ourselves the feelings that generated the dancer's movements. The art of landscape creates choreography for a walk. But each of the fine arts play a role in landscape design. Here, then, is a new theory of landscape that easily extends to all the fine arts, explaining our enjoyment in landscape, as well as aesthetic enjoyment more generally.
Studies of expressive dance demonstrate that we unconsciously model observed movements, duplicating in ourselves the feelings that generated the dancer's movements. The art of landscape creates choreography for a walk. But each of the fine arts play a role in landscape design. Here, then, is a new theory of landscape that easily extends to all the fine arts, explaining our enjoyment in landscape, as well as aesthetic enjoyment more generally.
Price: $222.00
Pages: 440
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Transcultural Aesthetics
Publication Date:
03 April 2024
ISBN: 9789004696921
Format: Hardcover
Susan Pashman holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, a C.L.D. from Harvard’s Landscape Institute and an M.A. in Landscape History and Design from Inchbald School of Design in London. Her M.A. in Philosophy is from Columbia; her law degree from Brooklyn Law School; her B.A. from N.Y.U.
She taught Philosophy at Adelphi University, and Landscape Aesthetics at the Landscape Institute. Articles based on this work appeared in “The Journal of Aesthetic Education” and “Dance Research.” She is the author of two novels, one non-fiction work and many short stories, as well as articles on Jewish themes.
She taught Philosophy at Adelphi University, and Landscape Aesthetics at the Landscape Institute. Articles based on this work appeared in “The Journal of Aesthetic Education” and “Dance Research.” She is the author of two novels, one non-fiction work and many short stories, as well as articles on Jewish themes.