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Jacky Bowring, "Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape" (Routledge, 2018)
Jacky Bowring, "Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape" (Routledge, 2018)
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49 minutes
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Sep 27, 2019
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Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape, experience, Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape(Routledge, 2018) situates the concept with 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 18th century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the sublime and the picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness....
Jacky Bowring is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Jacky Bowring is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Released:
Sep 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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