艾伦·卡尔松论人文环境的功能之美

Allen Carlson's Functional Beauty of Human Environment

艾伦·卡尔松将功能之美观念贯彻到整个人文环境。他具体地考察了三类对象的功能之美。他反思现代主义建筑的主观、抽象观念表达误区,提倡重新将功能作为建筑审美理解之基础性观念。他总结了日常生活对象——工艺品区别于艺术品的一系列特性,强调其功能性存在、功能性价值之特殊面貌。他同样用功能观念重新阐释艺术价值,构成了对整个近代西方美学艺术观念之反动。功能之美观念不仅是卡尔松环境美学新成果,同时也代表了20世纪中期以来西方当代美学之新观念、新趋势。

Allen Carlson put his Functional Beauty into the human environment,and explored the Functional Beauty of the three subjects.He reflected the misunderstanding of post-modern architecture ideology and Abstract concept expression,and advocated the function as the basic concept of aesthetic appreciation of architecture.He explored Functional Beauty in nature and the natural environment,in architecture and the built environment,in everyday artifacts,events,and activities,and finally in art and the art-world.In each case,Parsons and Carlson argue that Functional Beauty illuminates our aesthetic experiences and helps address various theoretical issues raised by these different objects of appreciation.Allen Carlson offered an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship between function and aesthetic value,breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the two as separate.