Publication details
O malebnu. Estetika přírody mezi zahradou a divočinou
| Title in English | The Picturesque. Aesthetics of Nature Between Garden and Wilderness |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | Main goal of the monograph is to interpret the "picturesque aesthetics" with an accent on the aesthetic as the discipline of philosophy and changing attitudes towards nature. The text is devided into the three sections: in first part is introduced an attitude towards nature during the 17th and 18th century in the British culture with an accent on the rise of appreciation of "wild" sceneries and British philosophical thinking in the field of aesthetics of nature. In the second part is introduced and analysed theories of the main theoreticians of picturesque - W. Gilpin, U. Price, R. Payne Knight and H. Repton. The third part this book is dealing with subsequent approaches towards picturesque in British culture of the 19th century (e. g. J. Ruskin), but also in German (e. g. Wölfflin) and Czech speaking countries (J. Durdík, O. Hostinský). Last chapter of this part deals with the picturesque in the concepts of the 20th century thinking (e. g. N. Pevsner). |
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