| Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape Contributor(s): Bowring, Jacky (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138946982 ISBN-13: 9781138946989 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Landscape - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 152.4 |
| LCCN: 2016002252 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |