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

ISBN-13: 9781138588769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

Jacky Bowring

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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