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The Artist’s Landscape

01 Jan 2017-pp 311-376
TL;DR: Landscape paintings are imagined constructions reflecting philosophy, culture and social ideology of a period and thus, express the relationship humans had with the environment as discussed by the authors and illustrate the evolution in the craftsmanship of depicting the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional plane not only for artistic but also for documentary reasons.
Abstract: The landscape is a source of inspiration in literature, visual arts and garden design and by extension of the creation of new landscapes. Visiting unknown landscapes brought new ‘incitements’ and new technologies brought new ways of seeing. Landscape art changed the concept of landscape. This is illustrated with the history of landscape painting and landscape architecture. While in China, landscape painting was from the ancient beginnings regarded as an important art form, landscape painting in Europe became only a genre on its own in the Renaissance with a popularity and style that varied from region to region. Landscape paintings are imagined constructions reflecting philosophy, culture and social ideology of a period and thus, express the relationship humans had with the environment. Landscape paintings illustrate also the evolution in the craftsmanship of depicting the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional plane not only for artistic but also for documentary reasons. The development of all kinds of pictorials and perspectives laid a basis for mapping, design and planning as well. Landscape painting evolved simultaneously with garden design, which up-scaled in landscape architecture. Gardens and parks are creations of new landscapes expressing spiritual visions and ideology as well as craftsmanship characteristic for a time. Also, the evolution differs between the East and the West and a succession of styles reflects the cultural evolution of society. Case studies illustrate the development of different styles and models. Designed landscapes are nowadays recognised as a distinct category of heritage.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Antwerp as a Cultural System as discussed by the authors : Value and Values in the Capital of Capitalism is an illustration of the importance of culture in Antwerp's economy. But it is not a good illustration for children's reading.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: "Cultural Selection" and the Origin of Pictorial Species 2. Antwerp as a Cultural System 3. Town and Country: Painted Worlds of Early Landscapes 4. Money Matters 5. Kitchens and Markets 6. Labor and Leisure: The Peasant 7. Second Bosch: Family Resemblance and the Marketing of Art 8. Descent from Bruegel I: From Flanders to Holland 9. Descent from Bruegel II: Flemish Friends and Family 10. Trickle-Down Genres: The "Curious" Cases of Flowers and Seascapes 11. Conclusions: Value and Values in the Capital of Capitalism Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

17 citations

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01 Jan 1984

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01 Jun 1986
TL;DR: Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that thrill and excite us as discussed by the authors, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond.
Abstract: 'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even physiology as the basis for the subject. Burke's theory of beauty encompasses the female form, nature, art, and poetry, and he analyses our delight in sublime effects that thrill and excite us. His revolution in method continues to have repercussions in the aesthetic theories of today, and his revolution in sensibility has paved the way for literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel through Romanticism, twentieth-century painting, and beyond. In this new edition Paul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke's Enquiry, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from Kant and Schiller to Ruskin and Nietzsche. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

1,137 citations

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12 Nov 2018
TL;DR: The "Philosophical Enquiry" as discussed by the authors is one of the first major works in European literature on the sublime, a subject that was later to fascinate thinkers from Kant and Coleridge in the 18th-century, to contemporary philosophers and literary critics.
Abstract: The "Philosophical Enquiry" is a study of the relationship between strong feelings and forms of art, that considers the inspired persuasiveness of certain kinds of writing alongside experience of the natural landscape, and is gradually being recognized as an important work of aesthetic theory. This eloquent and sometimes erotic book was long considered to be a piece of Burke's juvenilia, published when he was only 28. But it is a precursor of his later political writings, and clearly deals with a fashionable topic of intellectual preoccupation in the 18th-century. This work is also one of the first major works in European literature on the sublime, a subject that was later to fascinate thinkers from Kant and Coleridge in the 18th-century, to contemporary philosophers and literary critics. Adam Phillips has also edited Charles Lamb's "Selected Prose" and Walter Pater's "The Renaissance", as well as writing a study of his own entitled "Winnicott".

725 citations

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TL;DR: Culture changes landscapes and culture is embodied by landscapes as discussed by the authors, but neither has been examined sufficiently to produce cultural theory within the field of landscape ecology, and the following broad principles are proposed:
Abstract: Culture changes landscapes and culture is embodied by landscapes. Both aspects of this dynamic are encompassed by landscape ecology, but neither has been examined sufficiently to produce cultural theory within the field. This paper describes four broad cultural principles for landscape ecology, under which more precise principles might be organized. A central underlying premise is that culture and landscape interact in a feedback loop in which culture structures landscapes and landscapes inculcate culture. The following broad principles are proposed: 1. Human landscape perception, cognition, and values directly affect the landscape and are affected by the landscape. 2. Cultural conventions powerfully influence landscape pattern in both inhabited and apparently natural landscapes. 3. Cultural concepts of nature are different from scientific concepts of ecological function. 4. The appearance of landscapes communicates cultural values.

432 citations

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01 Sep 1996
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.
Abstract: Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.Chapters cover: patches -- size, number, and location edges and boundaries corridors and connectivity mosaics summaries of case studies from around the world

392 citations