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Author Fiskevold, Marius

Title Arcadia Updated : Raising Landscape Awareness Through Analytical Narratives
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Figures; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Reinterpreting landscapes in an evolving world; Raising landscape awareness through analytical landscape narratives; Sustaining the poetic potential of landscapes through action; Imagination, motivation and activation make landscapes visible; Landscapes as statements and ideas; Inherited and transformed landscapes; Landscape analysis as action reflecting on the human condition; Activating and actualising the landscape ideal of the insider; References
Chapter 2 The pastoral tradition as inherited motivesPastoral attitude and visual rationality; Shared appearances: the constructive act of seeing; Visual attention: the event of seeing; Horizon: encircled by a potentially shared world; Materialisation: the articulation of a visible motif; Realisation: a subjectively perceived image; Enlightening discrepancy: the dialectic act of seeing; Horizon: dialectical seeing; Materialised motifs show the interdependency of positive and negative ideals; Realisation: developing a subjective imagery based on worldly tensions
Subjective emancipation: the revelatory act of seeingHorizon: visual evaluation -- a motif's endurance as symbolic statement; Materialisation: keeping vital the restorative potential of a motif; Realisation: the revealing act of seeing (distance and immediacy); References; Chapter 3 From classical pastorals to pastoral landscapes: Rebirth of the landscape as fragile nature; Et in Arcadia ego 1999; The man with the gun: a pastoral narrative; Landscape as cultural idea: image of unity between humanity and nature; Classical pastoral models; The birth of landscape in modernity
Whole Nature becomes aesthetic nature in paintings and gardensPastoral motives invested in modern pastoral landscapes; Negotiating a problematic nature; Negotiating a problematic self: an evolving culture of vision; Negotiating human liminality; From sight to insight: methodological liminality; Landscape as symbolic ruin; Landscape as object of planning: landscape into land; The impossibility of a technocratic Arcadia; Gaining methodological independence; Contemporary pastoral analytical narration; A hermeneutics of landscape: convention and innovation; Sharing visions in a polis of the eye
The liminal space of an analytical narrativeReferences; Chapter 4 Instances of pastoral motivation in contemporary landscape analytical practice; Creating landscapes within the analytical narrative's horizon of comprehension; The action of the landscape analyst supports the formation of new landscapes; Vegaøyan: exposing a World Heritage landscape through the lens of an analytical narrative; The analysis of Vegaøyan is a part of the idea of the Unesco World Heritage Centre; Motifs of the World Heritage landscape; Imagination as the subjective entrance to a landscape
Notes Sarpefossen: extracting a poetic landscape from an ordinary area
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