Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere.This book differentiates ambiance from other affective states and emotions and explores its production. It provides an introduction to the history of ambiance and vividly demonstrates, through immersive and experiential writing, how ambiance manifests in different artistic situations and social settings. The book considers the neglected and unique importance of sculptural ambiance to the history of Africana visual culture, and what these works mean in terms of their social, historical, cultural, political, and ecological imagination of space. The book is written in an episodic style and begins with a description of an image before presenting an analysis of the artist’s style and staging for ambient experience.This book will benefit college and university students; scholars of art, architecture, aesthetics, philosophy, geography, anthropology, and sociology; and curators and galleries.
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Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere.
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Introduction1. Concentricity2. Aura3. Atmosphere4. Ambiance5. Space6. Envelopment7. Attunement8. Sculpted Ambiances9. Topology10. Staging11. Structure of the BookChapter One: Aurality1. Aura2. Atmosphere3. Transcendence4. Qualia5. Audire6. SpritChapter Two: Mirageness1. Freedom2. History3. Staging4. Elemental5. Materiality6. Nature7. Ambient Light8. MemoryChapter Three: Earthiness 1. Poetic Ambiance2. Allure 3. Shadow4. Assemblage5. Cityscapes6. “Sense”7. Milieu8. Storm9. OpennessChapter Four: Tactility1. Something2. Monument3. Decoration4. Domination5. Moment6. DesignChapter Five: Vitality1. Projection2. Allure3. Peace4. Care5. Anxiety6. Embodiment Chapter Six: Sacredness 1. Spiritual2. Origins3. Masks4. Ambiance5. SyncretismConclusion
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Product details

ISBN
9781032600918
Published
2024-07-19
Publisher
Vendor
Routledge
Weight
430 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
134

Biographical note

George Joshua Orwel, a philosopher and writer, is on the adjunct faculty of Hunter College and City Tech, City University of New York. He is writing a book on David Driskell as a Sylvia and Eddie Brown research fellow at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts & Culture of African Americans & the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.