Written as an advocacy of melancholyrsquo;s value as part of landscape experience; this book situates the concept within landscapersquo;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.? The 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.?
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