Publication details
Počátky estetického ocenění a uměleckého zobrazení industriální krajiny
| Title in English | The Beginnings of Aesthetic Appreciation and Artistic Depictions of the Industrial Landscape |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter discusses the history of the complex and ambiguous aesthetic attitude towards the industrial landscape. Authors find the roots of this ambiguity in the perception of this landscape at the beginning of the industrial age in Britain, followed by Germany and Bohemia (in literature, the visual arts, travel writing, or letters). At first one finds not only a negative attitude towards landscapes ‘polluted’ by industry, sometimes even associated with hell or demonic powers. A positive appreciations of the industrial landscape also existed alongsided, influenced by the contemporary aesthetics of the sublime and the idea of landscape as a site of harmony, order and beauty. We can also find neutral attitudes, characterized by their indifference to the industrial landscape, as well as differing views co-existing in the work of a single writer (or even in a single work). |