Download or read book Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us written by Robert E. Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of the aesthetic realm, placing the various major artforms within the setting of nature and the built environment as they arise within the field of experience. Each chapter displays the regional ontology of the form considered: the comprehensive set of eidetic features that limn the space of the art. It draws upon artists' statements, writings of key figures in the history of philosophy--including Plato, Hegel, Dewey, and Heidegger—and writings from various commentators on art. This volume is unique in its systematic and phenomenological approach, and in how it addresses aesthetics writ large.