Background
Weiss, Allen S. was born in 1953 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Lala and Leslie Weiss.
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Treats French cuisine as a fine art, offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.
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(Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the la...)
Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing issues similar to those raised by Weiss's critically acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity. The Western garden has always served as a setting for music, dance, theater, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the minor arts of meditative contemplation and erotic seduction. The history of landscape architecture is therefore inextricable from the histories of the other arts, and must be studied from an interdisciplinary and polycultural point of view. Some of the topics included in this book are the influence of neo-Platonic philosophy on the Italian Renaissance garden, erotic fantasies and the 18th-century libertine garden, the contrast between Thoreau's romantic notion of virgin nature and changes in perception due to increasing speed and mechanization, and the limits of landscape architecture as art form in 20th-century gardens.?
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From the Japanese Zen Garden to Andr Le Notre's Versailles, the history of landscape reveals that every garden embodies a philosophy. Focusing on the metaphysics, aesthetics, and theology of the seventeenth century, Allen Weiss's analysis offers new insight into the major gardens of this period: Vaux-le-Vicomte, Chantilly, and Versailles. From the Meditations of Descartes and Pascal's Penss, to the intrigues of court politics, Weiss reveals how the structure of these gardens reflects—sometimes literally—the power of Louis XIV, the relationship between God, King, sun, and infinity, and the new science of optics. Weiss's sophisticated yet highly readable text combines contemporary theory with a careful historical reading. He gives us a richer understanding of gardens than allowed in more traditional formal and stylistic analyses.
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Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement and dissociation that inspired both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became the object of the new art -- experimental, avant-garde, modernist -- which arose from the fragmented codes, the shattered forms of everyday communication.
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(Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of...)
Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.
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Weiss, Allen S. was born in 1953 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Lala and Leslie Weiss.
Bachelor, Queens College, City University of New York, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema Studies, New York University, 1989.
Professor New York University, since 1992.
(Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the la...)
(Treats French cuisine as a fine art, offering both histor...)
(From the Japanese Zen Garden to Andr Le Notre's Versaille...)
(Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of...)
(Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppres...)
Editorial and advisory board member Advisory Committee, IEHCA, France, 2008—2009. Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
