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Abstract
Gardens as an aesthetic form rank high for their capacity to engage aesthetic attenders fully. ‘Full engagement’ may be thought of in terms of an object’s capacity for constituting an aesthetic world a person can temporarily inhabit, a description used by Alan Goldman as he articulates his theory of aesthetic value, one that focuses on depth of perceptual, affective, and cognitive engagement.