The Time of the Landscape

On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution

Jacques Ranciere, Emiliano Battista

$26.95

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English

Polity Press
26 January 2023

Philosophy

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word “art.” It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience.

This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.

By: Jacques Ranciere
Translated by: Emiliano Battista
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781509548156
ISBN 10: 1509548157
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abbreviations of frequently cited works List of Illustrations Foreword I. A Newcomer to the Fine Arts II. Scenes of Nature III. The Landscape as Painting IV. Beyond the Visible V. Politics of the Landscape Epilogue Notes

Jacques Ranciere is a leading French philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. He is the author of many books on politics and aesthetics including Hatred of Democracy, The Emancipated Spectator, The Politics of Literature and The Edges of Fiction.

Reviews for The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution

“This short, polemical intervention in the history of landscape aesthetics is sure to energize a fresh debate about the relations of painting, architecture, and visual experience in the nineteenth century.” W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago “A decisive treatment of the perception and management of nature, The Time of the Landscape contends that the design and management of gardens in the post-revolutionary regime signal a sea-change in the ways we perceive, experience, and shape the world around us.” Tom Conley, Harvard University