Melancholy and the Landscape - Locating sadness, memory and reflection in the landscape (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jacky Bowring
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-58876-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-138-58876-8
Barcode:	9781138588769

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