Melancholy and the Landscape : Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape Paperback / softback
by Jacky Dr. Bowring
Part of the Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design series
Paperback / softback
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Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy.
With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century.
Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness.
The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.
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- Pages:184 pages, 20 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781138588769
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, 20 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138588769
