Karel Stibral, Since when we like wild and desolate sceneries?

The lecture will try to explain why we like wild nature and desolate types of sceneries or objects. The sceneries favoured today used to be considered uninteresting or even ugly. Our admiration for rugged rocks or thick wildwood  as well as for the disappearing works of  man in nature is quite recent and based on a new approach towards nature and monuments just as on the change in aesthetic preferences.