The time of the landscape : on the origins of the aesthetic revolution / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.

Main entry:

Rancière, Jacques, author.

Title & Author:

The time of the landscape : on the origins of the aesthetic revolution / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Cambridge : Polity Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

xi, 101 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Le temps du paysage : aux origines de la révolution esthétique. Paris : La Fabrique éditions, [2020].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-101).
A newcomer to the fine arts -- Scenes of nature -- The landscape as painting -- Beyond the visible -- Politics of the landscape.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word 'art.' It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy"--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1509548157 (paperback)
9781509548156 (paperback)
1509548149 (hardcover)
9781509548149 (hardcover)

Subject:

Nature (Aesthetics)
Gardens Philosophy.
Gardens Design.
Landscape painting.
Landscapes in art History.
Nature (Esthétique)
Jardins Philosophie.
Jardins Architecture.
Peinture de paysages.
Paysages dans l'art Histoire.
landscape gardening.
ART / General.
Landscapes in art
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Art and the revolution.
France Histoire 1789-1799 (Révolution) Art et révolution.
France

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
History
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Battista, Emiliano, translator.

On the origins of the aesthetic revolution

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319313
Call No.: 319313
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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