Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics.

This research is about landscape aesthetics.
Aesthetics is not purely Platonic but a result of human
communication with nature which relates to landscape experience and, in
turn, reflects and guides the way people appreciate, paint and design. This
is an issue of art philosophy and design methodology.
To link theory with practice, the relationship between landscape -
both painted and designed - and aesthetic thinking is the most important
topic discussed throughout the writing. To achieve a relatively complete
understanding of landscape aesthetics, the discussion develops with
reference to the historical, cultural, philosophical and technical contexts of
both the East and the West. Some key issues such as Romanticism of the
English School and Tao in Chinese landscape have been chosen as the
central objects of attention in the study. The manner of discussion, reason
and analysis is one of comparison.
Taking into account the roles of philosophy in art and
environmental design, 'Landscape Morphology', a systematic study of the
language system of landscape art, design and education, is of high value in
the area of environmental development, which substantially links the
theory with environmental art and design, and foreshadows the future of
landscape aesthetic research.