Melancholy and the Landscape - Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape

Informationen zum Autor Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy . Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Vignette 1: Palladio Plans (John Hejduk), Part I: The Place of Melancholy , 1. Placing Melancholy in Landscape Architecture, 2. Defining Melancholy, 3. The Beautiful, the Sublime, the Picturesque … and the Melancholy, 4. Aesthetics, 5. Emotion, 6. Ethics, 7. Empathy, Vignette 2: Objects and Apparitions – for Joseph Cornell (Octavio Paz), Part II: The Places of Melancholy , 8. The Places of Melancholy, 9. The Void, 10. The Uncanny, 11. Silence, 12. Shadows and Darkness, 13. Aura, 14. Liminality, 15. Fragments, 16. Leavings, 17. Submersion, 18. Weathering and Patina, 19. Ephemerality and Transience, 20. Camouflage, 21. Monochrome, 22. Intimate Immensity, Conclusion – beauty and sadness, the place of melancholy, the ‘pastoral lament’, Vignette 3: Landschaft

Product details

• Authors: Jacky Bowring, Jacky Dr. Bowring, Jacky Dr. (Lincoln University Bowring, Bowring Jacky
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138946989
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94698-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, Philosophy: aesthetics, Landscape architecture and design, Theory of architecture