艾伦·卡尔松论人类环境的审美欣赏

Allen Carlson's Aesthetic Appreciation of Human Environment

人类环境美学乃艾伦·卡尔松环境美学之新阶段。在此阶段,卡尔松反思了人类环境欣赏中传统的"设计者景观"方法,认为它使人们误将人类环境视为独立、精致的艺术对象,因而提倡一种"生态学方法",后者着重强调人类环境对人类生活价值的服务,并发现了人类环境各要素在历史过程中相互适应而产生的自然生成类生态效果。然而,卡尔松在人类环境欣赏中对微观对象欣赏视野的绝对性排除则是一种偏见。

Aesthetics of human environment is a new stage for Allen Carlson＇s environmental aesthetics. For aesthetic appreciation of human environment, Carlson reflects the shortage of the ＂designer landscape＂ approach which entails people to treat human environment as a sort of individual and well- designed object. He promotes ＂an ecological approach to the aesthetics of human environments＂, which lays stress upon the life value that human environments can serve people and the ecological effects that elements of human environment can cause in their historical process of fitting each other naturally. However, his absolute exclusion of microcosmic view for such appreciation is implausible.