Jacky Bowring

Melancholy and the Landscape (eBook, PDF)

Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317366959
• Artikelnr.: 45450224

Autorenporträt

Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy.

Inhaltsangabe

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