Neo-Romantic Landscapes
Title | Neo-Romantic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Stella Hockenhull |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2009-03-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1443808598 |
Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use of landscape. Questioning the established notion that the two film-makers, owing to their non-British personal roots, are located as un-British and ‘other’, Stella Hockenhull draws a correlation between the two media of film and painting to suggest otherwise. Emphasising the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature at a time when the experience and imagery of the war years generated a particular kind of ‘affect’ arising from the aftermath of destruction, she locates Powell and Pressburger’s wartime films in their historical and cultural context, notably Neo-Romanticism. By offering a close analysis of films such as A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going!, Black Narcissus and Gone to Earth she finds similar aesthetic qualities in a number of British landscape paintings executed contemporaneously. Drawing on press reviews for contemporary spectator response, Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a redirection of Film Studies, foregrounding the aesthetic pleasures of cinema in excess of narrative plausibility, thus resituating Powell and Pressburger in the British cultural traditions of the visual arts.
Romantic Gardens
Title | Romantic Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1567924042 |
The Morgan Library Museum has assembled an impressive array of trend-setting texts and outstanding works of art that reveal the origins and impact of the stylistic innovations of the Romantic Garden, in a broad cultural context, roughly from 1700 to 1900. Romantic Gardens provides a compelling overview of these groundbreaking ideas and shows how they were implemented in private estates and public parks in England, France, Germany, and America.
Bold Romantic Gardens
Title | Bold Romantic Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Oehme |
Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9781888931105 |
A rich harvest of ideas for achieving dynamic, four-season gardens, this book outlines the problems of and provides solutions for 30 different public and private projects. The authors show how to create bold, free-spirited gardens that require inexpensive maintenance, designing them so that they evolve with each season. 300 illustrations, many in color.
Romantic Landscapes
Title | Romantic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis R. Dean |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Romantic Landscape
Title | The Romantic Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Lichens |
Publisher | Pomegranate |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) |
ISBN | 0764928899 |
In the 19th century, a number of artists painted the landscape of New York's Hudson River Valley in a romantic style that embodied their reverence for nature. Organized by season, this volume contains gorgeous color reproductions of the contemporary art of Stan Lichens, whose work combines techniques of photography, watercolor pencils, and digital
Romantic Geography
Title | Romantic Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Yi-Fu Tuan |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0299296830 |
Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature
Haunted Landscapes
Title | Haunted Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Heholt |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2016-11-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1783488832 |
Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches – spectral, affective and spatial – to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.