Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire

We will try to undo the ideology of the “raw” in landscape analyses - the fantasy of what may have been little or not damaged by industrial activities and other traces of man. The landscape architect Gilles Clément shows that environments always resist both their exploitation and their preservation....

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Main Author: Maud Hagelstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Bourgogne
Series:Interfaces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/7116
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description We will try to undo the ideology of the “raw” in landscape analyses - the fantasy of what may have been little or not damaged by industrial activities and other traces of man. The landscape architect Gilles Clément shows that environments always resist both their exploitation and their preservation. They are dynamic and inventive; we must deal with their specific qualities. We will consider what Clément calls the “Third landscape”, a concept that applies to urban wastelands and derelict areas where activity seems suspended or suppressed, but which clearly become refuges of biodiversity, due to the absence of maintenance. The Third landscape and its industrial ruins allow for a reinvented relationship to the landscape, a “non-aesthetic” relationship, which would include “involuntary art”, a situational art that does not exactly take the forms of the wild or the raw, but integrates the random and the artificial. As a final note, we would also like to mention Josef Koudelka's photographs, that invite us to revisit the conventions of ruin aesthetics from this angle - Koudelka practices an art that acknowledges the complexity of its object, an object that is damaged, morbid, involuntary and yet majestic.
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spelling doaj.art-82d18a46d0594126aabf9a8c6679bfd52024-02-14T08:36:37ZengUniversité de BourgogneInterfaces2647-67544910.4000/interfaces.7116Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaireMaud HagelsteinWe will try to undo the ideology of the “raw” in landscape analyses - the fantasy of what may have been little or not damaged by industrial activities and other traces of man. The landscape architect Gilles Clément shows that environments always resist both their exploitation and their preservation. They are dynamic and inventive; we must deal with their specific qualities. We will consider what Clément calls the “Third landscape”, a concept that applies to urban wastelands and derelict areas where activity seems suspended or suppressed, but which clearly become refuges of biodiversity, due to the absence of maintenance. The Third landscape and its industrial ruins allow for a reinvented relationship to the landscape, a “non-aesthetic” relationship, which would include “involuntary art”, a situational art that does not exactly take the forms of the wild or the raw, but integrates the random and the artificial. As a final note, we would also like to mention Josef Koudelka's photographs, that invite us to revisit the conventions of ruin aesthetics from this angle - Koudelka practices an art that acknowledges the complexity of its object, an object that is damaged, morbid, involuntary and yet majestic.https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/7116landscapeaestheticsClément (Gilles)Third landscaperuinist poeticsRoger (Alain)
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Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
Interfaces
landscape
aesthetics
Clément (Gilles)
Third landscape
ruinist poetics
Roger (Alain)
title Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
title_full Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
title_fullStr Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
title_full_unstemmed Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
title_short Ruines et paysages bruts. Sur l’art involontaire
title_sort ruines et paysages bruts sur l art involontaire
topic landscape
aesthetics
Clément (Gilles)
Third landscape
ruinist poetics
Roger (Alain)
url https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/7116
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