Melancholy And The Landscape
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Melancholy And The Landscape
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-07
Melancholy And The Landscape written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-07 with Architecture categories.
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.
Melancholy And The Landscape
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-07
Melancholy And The Landscape written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-07 with Architecture categories.
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.
A Field Guide To Melancholy
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Release Date : 2015-01-29
A Field Guide To Melancholy written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by Oldcastle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with Psychology categories.
A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness, depression, or, quite simply, low moods from contemporary existence. Complex and contradictory, melancholy's presence weaves through the histories of both science and art. A Field Guide to Melancholy surveys this ambivalent concept and takes a journey through its articulation in a variety of languages, from the Russian toska of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, to kaiho - which is expressed in the dancing of the Finnish tango. Melancholy is found in the historic traditions of death's presence in paradise, the tears of nature, along with nostalgia, pathos, and melancholy's presiding god, Saturn. In contemporary society, melancholy becomes a fashion statement in the subculture of the Emo whilst shelves are rife with self help books encouraging readers to overcome depression. By drawing on a range of disciplines from psychology and philosophy to architecture and design, and by examining the work of creative figures as different as Ingmar Bergman, Albrecht Dürer, WG Sebald and Tom Waits, Jacky Bowring provides an original perspective on one of the most elusive, enigmatic and fascinating of human conditions.
Landscape Architecture Criticism
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-29
Landscape Architecture Criticism written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Architecture categories.
Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from the more well-known domains of art and architectural criticism. Throughout the book, Bowring delves into questions such as, how do we know if built or unbuilt works of landscape architecture are successful? What strategies are used to measure the success or failure, and by whom? Does design criticism only come in written form? It brings together diverse perspectives on criticism in landscape architecture, establishing a substantial point of reference for approaching design critique, exploring how criticism developed within the discipline. Beginning with an introductory overview to set the framework, the book then moves on to historical perspectives, the purpose of critique, theoretical positions ranging from aesthetics, to politics and experience, unbuilt projects, techniques, and communication. Written for professionals and academics, as well as for students and instructors in landscape architecture, it includes strategies, diagrams, matrices, and full colour illustrations to prompt discussion and provide a basis for exploring design critique.
The Persistence Of Melancholia In Arts And Culture
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Author : Andrea Bubenik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-04
The Persistence Of Melancholia In Arts And Culture written by Andrea Bubenik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Art categories.
This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)—the first visual representation of artistic melancholy—this volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freud’s essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917).
Caspar David Friedrich And The Subject Of Landscape
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Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2009-11-15
Caspar David Friedrich And The Subject Of Landscape written by Joseph Leo Koerner and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-15 with Art categories.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.” This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic. Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters. “This is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject.”—Independent
European Television Crime Drama And Beyond
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Author : Kim Toft Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-12-05
European Television Crime Drama And Beyond written by Kim Toft Hansen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-05 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the local, national and even transnational issues that are prevalent in society. This extensive volume explores a wide range of countries, from the US to European countries such as Spain, Italy, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, England and Wales, in order to reveal the very currencies that are at work in the global production and circulation of the TV crime drama. The chapters, all written by leading television and crime fiction scholars, provide readings of crime dramas such as the Swedish-Danish The Bridge, the Welsh Hinterland, the Spanish Under Suspicion, the Italian Gomorrah, the German Tatort and the Turkish Cinayet. By examining both European texts and the ‘European-ness’ of various international dramas, this book ultimately demonstrates that transnationalism is at the very core of TV crime drama in Europe and beyond.
Melancholy Ii
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Author : Jon Fosse
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2014-01-09
Melancholy Ii written by Jon Fosse and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with Fiction categories.
Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse’s coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy, picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. In the same meticulous and hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves not only as an investigation into the “collateral damage” of art, but into a master’s tools and obsessions. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, we are treated to the thoughts of Hertervig’s sister Oline, carrying on with her life in the absence of her beloved—if eccentric—brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, recalls Hertervig’s difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poor, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings both as an artist and human being. In the same meticulous and hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves not only as an investigation into the “collateral damage” of art, but into a master’s tools and obsessions.
Caspar David Friedrich And The Subject Of Landscape
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Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Caspar David Friedrich And The Subject Of Landscape written by Joseph Leo Koerner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Landscape painting categories.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe's first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective--one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not "what he sees before him, but what he sees within him." This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic. Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters. "This is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject."--"Independent"
Melancholia In W G Sebald S The Rings Of Saturn
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Author : Darina Stamova
language : de
Publisher: ProQuest
Release Date : 2009
Melancholia In W G Sebald S The Rings Of Saturn written by Darina Stamova and has been published by ProQuest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Melancholy in literature categories.
This thesis entitled "Melancholia in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn " (1995) investigates melancholia in W.G. Sebald's travel narrative The Rings of Saturn and shows it to be the work's constitutive quality. Through a critical text analysis of The Rings of Saturn that is based on the extensive secondary literature on Sebald and the tradition of melancholy, I argue that this narrative takes up crucial elements of the melancholy discourse and reworks it to express resistance. The Rings of Saturn is the second to last book of the German author W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) who lived most of his life in Great Britain where he taught at the University of East Anglia. Like many of his other works, The Rings of Saturn follows in the tradition of the travelogue but focuses on the slow-pace mode of walking. Walking through the Suffolk County in Eastern England, the first person narrator discovers traces of history embedded in the landscape and draws connections to persons and events far apart in time and space. Step by step the text thus unfolds an extensive reflection on civilization and its atrocities. The first chapter of my thesis provides a brief overview of Sebald's work and major characteristics of his aesthetics. The second chapter chronicles the development of the concept of melancholy from antiquity through the late 20 th century. The third chapter is devoted to the psychological aspect of melancholy in The Rings of Saturn . I examine the contradictory nature of melancholy as both an intensive experience of beauty and as a persistent suffering given life's futility and the destructive nature of civilization. The analysis of the political and the ethical aspect of melancholia in the fourth chapter reveals melancholia as a mode through which Sebald attempts to oppose destruction. I discuss his language and narrative style, his historical descriptions and his reflection on ways of representing history, and I show that this highly ethical narrator strives to both account for the horrors of history and to devise ways to resist it. This burden condemns him to melancholy. My analysis also shows that Sebald's text attempts to work against historical oblivion by connecting destruction and calamities to landscape and the human influence on nature. In the fifth chapter of my thesis, I discuss Sebald's narrative technique through which he draws far reaching connections between historical events and economic developments. I also investigate the central motifs in The Rings of Saturn and show how they convey ecological concerns. My analysis reveals that melancholia in The Rings of Saturn functions as a controversial way of seeing the world and history and reacting to it. Melancholia in Sebald's text conveys on the one hand an intensive experience of beauty and a horrible suffering on the other. Melancholia also bemoans the unreliability of memory and at the same time strives to preserve memory. In addition, the narrator hopes to find a perspective that allows him to convey history in an adequate manner. In its entirety, the text suggests a new epistemology which would enable a fairer perspective of representing history. Such an epistemology would explore the interconnectedness and interdependence between natural and human history, as well as between world-wide economic processes and their impact on peripheral regions and on the fate of individuals. The rings of Saturn appear in Sebald's text as the poetic alley of a highly melancholic consciousness and also as the alley of a non-linear look at history. This persistent circling around the atrocities of history and exploring interconnections is an expression of Sebald's melancholic consciousness which is neither able nor willing to forget.