Breathing mountains / photography, drawings, texts, Antoinette Nausikaä.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nausikaä, Antoinette, 1973- photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography of mountains.

Mountains--Religious aspects--Pictorial works.

Mountains.

Mountains--Religious aspects.

Ararat, Mount (Turkey)--Pictorial works.

Ararat, Mount (Turkey).

Fuji, Mount (Japan)--Pictorial works.

Fuji, Mount (Japan).

Olympus, Mount (Greece)--Pictorial works.

Olympus, Mount (Greece).

Mountains--China--Pictorial works.

China.

Greece--Mount Olympus.

Japan--Mount Fuji.

Turkey--Mount Ararat.

Genre:

Pictures.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

180 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 21 cm

Other Title:

Breathing mountains, 五嶽, Ağri Daği, Oλυμπος, 富士山

Place of Publication:

[Ghent, Belgium] : Art Paper Editions, 2018.

Summary:

Five years ago, Antoinette Nausikaä decided she wanted to observe mountains. In the middle of her frantic urban life she developed a need for stillness and solitude, and she was convinced that mountains were the place to go. Soon however, she discovered that "pure" silence and solitude were nowhere to be found. Looking for the timeless spirit of the mountains, she found fleeting traces of human existence everywhere. She lived and worked on and around eight ancient mountains in Europe and Asia, each one of them a sacred icon and a pilgrimage destination. She travelled to Mount Fuji (JP), Olympus (GR), Ararat (TR) and the five most sacred mountains in China, the Wŭyuè. She observed them, climbed them, photographed, made drawings and dug in the earth for clay to make small sculptures. And so, almost casually, her quest developed into an investigation and presentation of one of the most pressing philosophical themes of this moment: the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene, as interpreted by many authoritative contemporary philosophers, deals with the idea that man and nature are fundamentally separated. An idea that is a typical product of nineteenth-century Romanticism, but is now considered to be out-of-date. After all, our human presence is omnipresent, visible even in the geographical layers of the Earth. Publisher.

Five years ago, Antoinette Nausikaä decided she wanted to observe mountains. In the middle of her frantic urban life she developed a need for stillness and solitude, and she was convinced that mountains were the place to go.0Soon however, she discovered that ?pure? silence and solitude were nowhere to be found. Looking for the timeless spirit of the mountains, she found fleeting traces of human existence everywhere.0She lived and worked on and around eight ancient mountains in Europe and Asia, each one of them a sacred icon and a pilgrimage destination. She travelled to Mount Fuji (JP), Olympus (GR), Ararat (TR) and the five most sacred mountains in China, the W?yuè. She observed them, climbed them, photographed, made drawings and dug in the earth for clay to make small sculptures.0And so, almost casually, her quest developed into an investigation and presentation of one of the most pressing philosophical themes of this moment: the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene, as interpreted by many authoritative contemporary philosophers, deals with the idea that man and nature are fundamentally separated. An idea that is a typical product of nineteenth-century Romanticism, but is now considered to be out-of-dates. After all, our human presence is omnipresent, visible even in the geographical layers of the Earth.

Notes:

"APE #118"--Colophon.

ISBN:

9490800961

9789490800963

OCLC:

1078881197