Smell and anosmia in the aesthetic appreciation of gardens
Tafalla, Marta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Date: |
2014 |
Abstract: |
In his 'Critique of the Power of Judgment', Kant defined the garden as a visual art and considered that smell plays no role in its aesthetic appreciation. If the Kantian thesis were right, then a person who has no sense of smell (who suffers from anosmia) would not be impaired in his or her aesthetic appreciation of gardens. At the same time, a visually impaired person could not appreciate the beauty of gardens, although he or she could perceive them through hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In this paper I discuss the role of smell and anosmia in the aesthetic appreciation of gardens. I accept the Kantian idea that the appreciation of a garden is the appreciation of its form, but I also defend that, at least in some cases, smell can belong to the form of gardens and, consequently, the ability or inability to smell influences their aesthetic appreciation. |
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Language: |
Anglès |
Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: |
Aesthetic appreciation ;
Anosmia ;
Beauty ;
David E. Cooper ;
Form ;
Garden ;
Home ;
Kant ;
Meaning ;
Mara Miller ;
Smell ;
Transience |
Published in: |
Contemporary aesthetics, Vol. 12 (2014) , ISSN 1932-8478 |
Adreça alternativa: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7523862.0012.019
Adreça alternativa: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_contempaesthetics/vol12/iss1/19/
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