Sad. Storm. Dark. About the symbolism of nature in the art of the New Age

This work belongs to the pen of Mikhail Nikolayevich Sokolov - Doctor of Art History (1991), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1996), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012), Expert RGNF.
The book continues the studies presented in the book "Principle of Paradise. Heads from the history of the garden, park and beautiful appearance, and are aimed at revealing the essential patterns of European garden and park art of the new time (mainly early new times) - in its interaction with the historical landscape as such. The geographical range covers mainly the UK, France and Italy (as well as Russia, which mastered and then significantly complemented Western European garden art), and the chronological and stylistic scale - first of all, those centuries (XVI -XVIII centuries) and those artistic eras) and those artistic eras) (from the Renaissance to early romanticism), when the park and the surrounding nature were involved in a particularly active and unusual neighborhood. The garden and wild nature are conceptually outlined as the basic topos of this neighborhood and interaction. If the previous book was dominated by the "principle of paradise" (as a blessed idyll that predetermines the near and distant garden species), then the principle of “storm in the garden” prevails in the new studies - a storm as a universal metaphor that manifests itself in a kind of destructive creation or creative destruction, introducing the freestyle of natural elements into the art. Separate sections are devoted to: the changing image of the Mother of Nature in her kind and formidable hypostasis, iconography and poetry of the storm, badness and shadow (with the general conclusions about that "drama of the landscape", which finds its expression in the poetry of gardens) For the study, numerous examples from literature, philosophy, visual and applied arts were involved