NEGLECTED LANDSCAPES: ON THE AESTHETICS OF THE POLISH URBAN SCENERY
NEGLECTED LANDSCAPES: ON THE AESTHETICS OF THE POLISH URBAN SCENERY
Author(s): Weronika BRYL-ROMANSubject(s): Environmental Geography, Aesthetics, History of Education, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, History of Communism
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: landscape aesthetics; environmental aesthetics; spatial order; aesthetic education; Polish cultural landscape; standard of taste; habitus; peasant culture;
Summary/Abstract: The article offers a reflection on the possible causes of a disregarding attitude to the value of landscape and spatial order in contemporary Poland. Neglecting aesthetic values, usually interpreted as an effect of the communist past, is considered in the paper as a symptom of a specific spatial culture correlated with the social and cultural grounds of the present Polish society. Although it is possible to point out several viable determinants of the present landscape quality in Poland, they all seem to have the same origin. To feature it, the author refers to P. Bourdieu’s habitus concept as well as to the socio-historical perspective in which the Polish society was shaped (peasant culture). The problem of the lack of adequate aesthetic education also stems from the same cultural context. The enhancement of pro-landscape thinking requires resolute actions in many fields. Nonetheless, a proper understanding of the aesthetic education seems to be crucial here.
Journal: Studia Miejskie
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 36
- Page Range: 83-97
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English