Henri Maldiney

River culture: How socio‐ecological linkages to the rhythm of the waters develop, how they are lost, and how they can be regained

“…In his essay L’Esthétique des rythmes , the French philosopher Henry Maldiney (1973, pp. 147–172) goes beyond the primary notion of rhythms as a streaming phenomenon (in the sense of ‘defined by time flow’), as it occurs, e.g., in music, dance, and metrics of poetry, and introduces rhythm as a central element of non‐streaming, visual arts, in which time is not immediately apparent, such as plastic art and painting, and concludes that all aesthetics derive from rhythm (Blümle, 2011).…”