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

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Jacky Dr. Bowring

Melancholy and the Landscape

Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape

Jacky Dr. Bowring

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Routledge
06 July 2016

Theory of architecture; Landscape art & architecture; Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

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.

By: Jacky Dr. Bowring
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781138946989
ISBN 10: 1138946982
Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 06 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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