Study of Australian Landscape Artists (c. 1994)

Investigator: Malcolm Drysdale

Population: Landscape artists

Identification method: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed (Sociological Abstracts AN94S27961).

Sampling procedure: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed.

N and Response rate: N=40. Response rate unavailable in secondary source reviewed.

Publication: Drysdale, Malcolm S. 1994. "The Relationship between Aesthetics and Ecology: Particularly in Reference to Land." International Sociological Association (ISA) Paper.

Summary: Drysdale (1994) used in-depth interviews, supplemented by ethnographic fieldwork, with 40 landscape artists from South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania (Australia). The study examined conceptions of aesthetic experience used in the perception of the environment, and how these conceptions are used by social agents in assessing environments.