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“Aesthetic” appreciation is not limited to the fine arts — artistic paintings, sculptures, or masterpieces of architecture — nor is it limited to “objects” — pictures, statues, buildings, etc. — if by “aesthetic” appreciation we mean the accounting for of any environment-behavior relationship in terms of “beauty”. Aesthetic appreciation in this sense can also be of our everyday environment — natural landscape or historical townscape, etc. — and it may arise during an ongoing encounter of a specific surroundings.
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Landwehr, K. (1990). The “aesthetic experience” as perceiving the general affordance of explorability. In: Landwehr, K. (eds) Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84106-4_11
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