The Geographical Unconscious
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 432
Table of contents: title: Part I Archetypal Spatialities; title: 1 The Space of Heroes 23; title: The Fire of the eyes 23; title: The 8th century Bc: Myth, Geographies, art 29; title: Tragedy and participatory spatialities 31; title: homer’s poetic ‘i’ 34; title: awesome humanity and the Tragic polis 36; title: spatialities, cosmologies, optics 39; title: Mathematics and the law 44; title: nature, people, architecture: interactions 50; title: The shield of achilles 55; title: 2 Sappho: Light and the Sacred Cosmologies of; title: the Human Body 71; title: The Dancing Maidens 71; title: sacred cosmologies 72; title: The ‘Modern’ archaic poetic Genius and the; title: Dialectics of immortality 75; title: The poetess and homer 79; title: sappho’s Thiasos 81; title: sappho: Persona Loquens or the Voice of Generality? 82; title: Drawing the Divine in the poetic sphere 83; title: nature, Gardens, sanctuaries 86; title: present interpretations 88; title: Part II Byzantine Participatory Spatialities and Modern Art; title: 3 Byzantine Art, Cubism, Surrealism 99; title: Archaism in the Heart of Modernism 99; title: Spatial Conventions 106; title: Byzantine Intuitive Spatio-visualities 109; title: Western Breakthroughs 116; title: Cubism and Intuitive-relational Spatialities 118; title: Surrealism: Looking for Archetypal Associations 121; title: Comparison between the Three Genres 127; title: 4 Mediterranean Fermentations in Early; title: Modernity: El Greco’s Mare Meum 141; title: Modern Mediterranean Cosmogonies 141; title: Crete: The post-Byzantine Greece of Greece 147; title: Nature in the Renaissance 152; title: The Theatricality of the Renaissance City 155; title: Literary Aesthetics in Renaissance Crete 157; title: Venetian ‘Harmonies’ 160; title: El Greco and Michael Damaskinos: Two 16thcentury; title: Cretan Masters 161; title: Part III Modernity as Urban Visual Experience; title: 5 Paris-Patras: Modern Urban Geographies of; title: Visual Elation 183; title: Paris-Patras: What Modernity in the European Periphery? 183; title: Urban Modernity: Phantasmagoria and Mise-en-scène 192; title: Paris: From the Middle Ages to Haussmann 197; title: New Urban Vision 200; title: Gustave Caillebotte and Haussmann’s Paris 204; title: The Urban Pasts of Patras 209; title: Patras: The 19th-century Urban Design 212; title: Literary Romanticism and Urban Space as Theatre 214; title: The Carnival 215; title: The New Ontology of Vision in Patras 217; title: Part IV Cosmopolitan Modernisms and the East: F.L. Wright, D.; title: Pikionis and N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas; title: 6 Japanese Space as Archetype and Unconscious 233; title: The Fleeting Beauty 233; title: The Japanese Culture and the Formation of Eastern; title: and Western Geographical Archetypes 237; title: Spatial Networks and Ukiyo-e 241; title: Japanese Gardens 246; title: Politics and European Architectural Influence in; title: Interwar Japan 248; title: The post-Hiroshima Death Drive in Japanese Space 251; title: The post-War Period in the Work of the Architect; title: Kenzo Tange: Form Follows Destruction 253; title: The Present Spatialities and the Problems of; title: Japanese Development 257; title: From Edo to Tokyo 259; title: 7 Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan 273; title: Frank Lloyd Wright: Icon and Hero 273; title: The Paroxysm of the Exotic: On space, Chinoiseries; title: and Japonisme 277; title: Japan in Wright’s Mind 280; title: The Art Dealer: Wright or Wrong? 284; title: Dialogues with Ancient Spatialities 284; title: The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo 286; title: Japan in Wright’s Architecture in America 288; title: An Ambiguous Modernist 290; title: Wright’s Fluid Spatialities: Mental Journeys or; title: Authentication of Self? 293; title: 8 Dimitris Pikionis, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas; title: and the East 301; title: Contesting Objectification 301; title: Creative Localisms and Myth 303; title: Seeing the Invisible, Shaping a Consciousness 305; title: Searching for Greece in the East 307; title: Ghikas and the East 308; title: Pikionis and the East 316; title: The Filothei Garden 321; title: The Aixoni Settlement 324; title: Part V Past-Future Space; title: 9 Baroque Cyberspatialities 337; title: On Meta-optical Space 337; title: The Baroque: Total Resurrection 339; title: Metaphysics of Representation, Old and New 345; title: Baroque Spaces and Visions 347; title: The New Aesthetic: Form Follows Flux 350; title: New Spatialities 352; title: In Place of Conclusions: Space and Vision: Retraining and Rebooting 359; title: Bibliography