Melancholy And The Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory And Reflection In The Landscape (Routledge Research In Landscape And Environmental Design)
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Paperback/English
USD 68.40
Description
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
