Aesthetics of Nature

9. List of Figures

  1. Figure 1 Horses from the Chauvet Cave. Rather than of an absence of the depiction of the environment, or of an absence of aesthetic feeling for it, we can speak (even today) of an all-pervasive overdetermination by it. The environment is a noise that we sometimes perceive, but which is mostly the backdrop of our lives (photograph: Flickr/Thomas T.).
  2. Figure 2 The most wanted painting in the United States of America according to an extensive survey carried out by Komar and Melamid. Elsewhere in the world they arrived at very similar results (photograph: Dia Center for the Arts).
  3. Figure 3 The desktop background is so well known and so widespread that, according to Microsoft’s estimates, it has imprinted itself on the memory of more than a billion inhabitants of the Earth (photograph: Flickr/Remko van Dokkum).
  4. Figure 4 Max Ernst, Geburt einer Galaxie [Birth of a Galaxy], oil on canvas, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (photograph: Blaž Mazi, retrospective at the Albertina, Vienna, 2013).
  5. Figure 5 Pogačnik’s lithopuncture stone with a cosmogram in St. Paul im Lavanttal, Austria. The relief, or pictorial, sign introduces healing energy into the space of nature (photograph: Wikipedia/Johann Jaritz).
  6. Figure 6 The Slovenian coat of arms represents an ideal that other nations have yet to attain; in Slovenia it is realised and alive in the ideal landscape of Triglav, lakes, rivers and the Karst underground (image: Government/National Symbols of the Republic of Slovenia).
  7. Figure 7 Caspar David Friedrich, Neuer Mond über dem Riesengebirge [New Moon over the Riesengebirge], 1810 or 1828/1835 (photograph: Wikipedia).
  8. Figure 8 Humboldt’s engraving of nature, published in the book Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen nebst einem Naturgemälde der Tropenländer in Paris in 1805.
  9. Figure 9 In the moments after the explosion, the shape of the shock wave resembles the terrestrial globe. That which destroys has the same form as that which will be destroyed (Harold Edgerton, Atomic Bomb Test, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1952. The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation).
  10. Figure 10 Look’s then picture editor, Arthur Rothstein, was photographed, during the preparation of an article on the International Geophysical Year of 1954, in a telling position: between small models of the Moon and the Earth he circled in “orbit”, creating a photograph for the cover story (photograph: Paul Fusco, In outer space, Look’s Arthur Rothstein is suspended between the Moon and the Earth, 1957. Look Magazine Photograph Collection).
  11. Figure 11 Earthrise is the name of NASA photograph number AS8-14-2383, taken in lunar orbit by the astronaut William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission. The appendix shows the true orientation of the original photograph (photograph: NASA).
  12. Appendix 2 Earthrise (NASA AS08-14-2383) in its original orientation, as photographed by William Anders (added in the English edition).