"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or …
"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or …
"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or …
"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or …
Raw: architectural engagements with nature
Raw: architectural engagements with nature
Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture. 0Nature is examined in a raw intermediary state, where it is noticeable as nature, despite, but at t…
Raw: architectural engagements with nature
Sand. water. wind / Jan Brockmann -- Ruskin, rocks and water / Andrew Ballantyne -- Building and belonging. John Ruskin on the art and nature of architecture / Dag T. Andersson -- A visual journey into environmental aesthetics / Birgit Cold -- The illumination of time in space. …
Raw: architectural engagements with nature
Nature inheres in many aesthetic forms of expression. In architecture, however, nature emerges with a particular power and clarity, which makes architecture a raw kind of art. Thus, by using the concept of 'raw' as a focal point, this book provides new approaches to architecture…
Essay by Marina Warner.
Passing strange and wonderful: aesthetics, nature, and culture
by Tuan, Yi-fu
fromKodansha Globe
Passing strange and wonderful: aesthetics, nature, and culture
by Tuan, Yi-fu
fromKodansha Globe
"Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies' attitude to…
Thinking through landscape
by Berque, Augustin, Berque, Augustin, Feenberg-Dibon, Anne-Marie
"Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies' attitude to…
Thinking through landscape
by Berque, Augustin, Berque, Augustin, Feenberg-Dibon, Anne-Marie
"Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies' attitude to…