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Environmental Aesthetics and the Dynamic Object
- Ethics & the Environment
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2006
- pp. 1-19
- 10.1353/een.2006.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
In this paper, I lay out a case for why those objects of aesthetic attention which are principally characterized as natural objects should be understood not statically, as existing in merely a three-dimensional fixed state, but as dynamic, as existing in a space-time context, complete with change, movement, and flux. After this, I explain why this is important, how the dynamic nature of natural objects raises a concern for aesthetically evaluating natural objects, and how that concern may be addressed.