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The Time of the Landscape
On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution1. Aufl.
13,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley |
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Veröffentl.: | 19.10.2022 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781509553280 |
Sprache: | französisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 120 |
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<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
Abbreviations of frequently cited works<br /> List of Illustrations<br /> Foreword<br /><br /> I. A Newcomer to the Fine Arts<br /> II. Scenes of Nature<br /> III. The Landscape as Painting<br /> IV. Beyond the Visible<br /> V. Politics of the Landscape<br /><br /> Epilogue<br /> Notes
“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.”<br /><b>W. J. T. Mitchell,<i> University of Chicago</i><br /><br /></b>“A decisive treatment of the perception and management of nature, <i><i>The Time of the Landscape</i></i> 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.”<br /><b>Tom Conley, <i>Harvard University</i></b>
<b>Jacques Rancière</b> is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis.