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1244Stephen Davies, The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution (2013)Literature & Aesthetics 23 (2): 1-1. 2013.This review article critiques Stephen Davies' The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution.
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368Time, Music, and GardensPhilosophy and Music Conference. 2012.This conference paper contests the validity of some traditional concepts of gardens. It introduces the possibility of considering the passage of time in gardens as a musical, rhythmic phenomonen.
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367What is Temporal art? A Persistent Question RevisitedContemporary Aesthetics 13 1-1. 2015.This article examines the fourteen conditions constituting Levinson and Alperson’s taxonomy of conditions for temporal arts. It claims that some of the conditions and several of the lists of arts exemplifying them need revision. It recommends adding a new condition concerned with the effects of the passage of time on gardens, environmental sculpture, and outdoor installations. The article concludes that gardens may be a model for understanding and appreciating other arts sharing the same bi-(…Read more
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365We Do Not Have an Adequate Conception of Art until We Have One That Accommodates Gardens.Dissertation, Lincoln University. 2012.The thesis explores the adequacy of five well-known conceptions of art to the case of gardens. It concludes that, of those conceptions, the cluster theory is best suited to the case of gardens.
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1The Garden as Art: A new Space for the Garden in Contemporary AestheticsDissertation, . 2017.Western art gardens have enjoyed a chequered relationship with philosophical aesthetics. At different times, they have been both lauded and rejected as exemplars of art, and, for most of the last 150 or so years, they have been largely ignored. However, during the last 25 years, there has been a welcome resurgence of philosophical interest in such gardens. This study situates the work stemming from this revival of interest in its historical context and assesses its adequacy in accounting for gar…Read more
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Definitions: Challenges and Dangers in Symposium: How do cross-cultural studies impact upon the conventional definition of art?.Journal of World Philosophies 3 (1). 2018.
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Numinous fields: perceiving the sacred in nature, landscape, and art (edited book)Brill. 2024.Numinous Fields has its roots in a phenomenological understanding of perception. It seeks to understand what, beyond the mere sensory data they provide, landscape, nature, and art, both separately and jointly, may mean when we experience them. It focuses on actual or potential experiences of the numinous, or sacred, that such encounters may give rise to. This volume is multi-disciplinary in scope. It examines perceptions of place, space, nature, and art as well as perceptions of place, space, an…Read more
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Dancing with Time: The Garden as ArtPeter Lang. 2019.Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book shines new light on long-held assumptions about gardens and proposes novel ways in which we might reconsider them. The author challenges traditional views of how we experience gardens, how we might think of gardens as works of art, and how the everyday materials of gardens – plants, light, water, earth – may become artful. The author provides a detailed analysis of Tupare, a garden in New Zealand, and uses it as …Read more
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