Offering an overview on the relationships between smell and atmospheres as proposed by philosophy and the humanities, this volume interprets the “olfactive” as a cross-sensory, affective and ecological...
Weightlessness and Thought in Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts
Afterword by Paola Del Zoppo
Edited by Rosanna Gangemi and Micaela Latini
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 9788869774546
Publisher: Mimesis International
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
120 Pages
This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than an atmospheric phenomenon: the shape of its contours in words and images, its metaphoric...
The contagious joy of a party, the solemn silence in a church, the gloomy atmosphere of rows and rows of identical houses in an ugly city. Through a criticism of the reification and psychologization...
Notes on Empathy, Emotions, Body, Brain, and Space
by Elisabetta Canepa
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9788869773785
Publisher: Mimesis International
Pub Date: 2022-08-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
250 Pages
This book explores the atmospheric issue from an independent, architectural perspective. The first section introduces and analyzes the atmospheric concept inside the lexical scope of the architectural discipline. The second one studies the topic throughout the sensory-emotional filter of the perceiving subject located in the built environment.
The concept of “atmosphere” as a qualitative-emotional prius of sensory experience seems today to have encouraged the convergence of many interdisciplinary studies focused on the qualitative aspects of our “surroundings”. This book explores the relationship between atmospheres, expressive qualities, moods and collective feelings.
Human space is an English translation of one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow’s text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology, and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print (in 2010 the German edition was issued in its eleventh impression). The
This book is the result of an international conference that took place in Rome on September 13th-14th 2019, entitled “Resounding Spaces: Music and Atmospheres”. The main topic was the relationship between music(s) and concepts like resonance, atmosphere, and mood. Talking about “music(s)” and not “music” (in singular) is a necessity because of the
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