Pohledem otevřít: Rozhledna jako specifický estetický objekt

• Authors: Drlik L.

Title variants

EN

OPEN TO (IN-)SIGHT: THE OBSERVATION TOWER AS A SPECIAL AESTHETIC OBJECT

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

By analyzing and subsequently synthesizing two aesthetically relevant aspects of the observation tower, the author seeks in this article to uncover the special nature and relevance that the observation tower has for aesthetics. The article aims to demonstrate (1) how the characteristics of this special work of architecture correspond to its mission to be the centre of surveying the landscape (the 'external' aspect), (2) what kind of insight into our own existence such experience may provide (the 'internal' aspect), and (3) why the observation tower, together with the view of the landscape, forms a single aesthetic situation (the synthesis of the two aspects).

Keywords

EN

ARCHITECTURE; LANDSCAPE; OBSERVATION TOWER

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 1-4
• Pages: 45-56
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Drlik L.

• L. Drlik, Estetika, redakce, Katedra estetiky, Filozoficka fakulta UK, Celetna 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04999497