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From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom
Tim Edensor
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Description for From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness. Tim Edensor begins by examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks, particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can be ... Read more
Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness. Tim Edensor begins by examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks, particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816694433
SKU
V9780816694433
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About Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor teaches cultural geography at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He is the author of Tourists at the Taj; National Identity, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life; and Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics, and Materiality.
Reviews for From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom
The wealth of sources and documents one finds in From Light to Dark is one of the great merits of the book. -Leonardo With many such insights and many more examples of the ways in which we may reframe the scholarship of modern perception and sensory experience, From Light to Dark certainly deserve[s] further attention. -Journal ... Read more