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Deconstructing Disney World
- Author(s):
- Arnold Berleant (see profile)
- Date:
- 2007
- Subject(s):
- Aesthetics, Environment (Aesthetics)
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- disney world, aesthetic engagement, aesthetic critique, Environmental aesthetics, Environment
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6RR1PM46
- Abstract:
- It might seem strange to propose an aesthetic consideration of the theme park, that artificial bloom in the garden of popular culture. The aesthetic is often considered a minority interest in the modern world, yet it offers a distinctive perspective, even on an activity that has mass appeal, and can provide insights that would otherwise remain undiscovered. Aesthetic description and interpretation can illuminate the theme park in many directions: as architecture, design, theater, landscape architecture, environment. I shall choose the last of these, environment.
- Notes:
- Previously published as "The Critical Aesthetics of Disney World," Journal of Applied Philosophy, 11/2 (1994), 171-180. As "Deconstructing Disney World," translated into Chinese by Niu Hong Bao and published in Wen She Zhe (Literature, History, and Philosophy, a journal in P.R. China), 1994/2, 92-103.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Broadview
- Pub. Date:
- 2007
- Author/Editor:
- Arnold Berleant & Allen Carlson
- Chapter:
- 7
- Page Range:
- 139 - 149
- ISBN:
- 9781551116853
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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