Melancholy and the Landscape

<p>Written 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. </p><p>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. </p>