{"product_id":"melancholy-and-the-landscape-locating-sadness-memory-and-reflection-in-the-landscape-9781138588769","title":"Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jacky Bowring\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45238898557079,"sku":"9781138588769","price":4315.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138588769.webp?v=1769221077","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/melancholy-and-the-landscape-locating-sadness-memory-and-reflection-in-the-landscape-9781138588769","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}