He has recently come out of printing a book of mine on the landscape in Spanish letters. Actually has some age, he was born in the day of two conferences, one on Sandgrouse, in 1995, and another on the Generation of 98, in 1997. I gathered those initial texts in a book that was published as a contribution to the centenary of 1898. The work was then called, and continues now with the same title, Landscape image. The Generation of 98 and Ortega y Gasset. As the book 1998 of restricted, today has become a virtually impossible to find work. But, as some think their contribution is still valid, has seemed to publishing timely FORCOLA its reissue. This book is, as, the eyes of a geographer on a Spanish literary contribution to the landscape. Thereby, landscape 98 has returned to the road is not strictly from the letters, but the professional habit of observing landscapes.
This book is, as, the eyes of a geographer on a Spanish literary contribution to the landscape
The cultural image of the Spanish territory is logically related to the one developed in Europe since Petrarca, naturalists Renais-to, and illustrated and romantic travelers. But with some independence. More recently even bought a very striking quality, such entity that has given rise to even direct influence on how we look, it has awarded a cultural overlay landscape. This image was heartfelt and designed by artists from the generation of 1898, as Unamuno, Baroja, Azorin, Ax, Beruete, and was continued in the work of intellectuals and artists of the first half of the twentieth century, as Ortega y Gasset. Ax summed up the attitude of the writers of 98 when he said: «¿Smart del natural?… The model is necessary. Why copy? Not; to think about him. His gaze on the landscape was not to geographers, analysts the territory, was neither a scientific explanation or a pragmatic, but a cultural image of the landscape. That cultural body persists. Your social life conditions even our gaze to the effect of received ideas, it teaches us to see. Such an image is mainly literary, but pictorial. In sum, is substantially aesthetic, intellectual and philosophical. Therefore insist that, or in style or method or claim, is related to own representations scientists, the technical political territorial.
The landscape 98 has returned to the road is not strictly from the letters, but the professional habit of observing landscapes
But by the settled landscape literature in Spanish intellectual horizon a legacy of values ??given to real landscapes, as had become so intensely before or has done it again later. There is certainly very valuable others, as Clarion the Galdos, and other notable painters of landscapes; Landscaper root even 98 may be immediately before, for example in the moral depths of the Free Institution of Teaching. But the cultural movement itself, quality, their dedication and the amount of their contribution landscape are typical of 98. Your contribution to this field is geographically adjacent to not only intellectual and artistic vision par excellence of our landscapes, but the creation of his own literary image, in which since then we move.
The rereading of 98 Ortega and enthusiasm brings us back to the landscapes in the proper measure of its necessary support and melancholy intelligence
Perhaps it might seem that the subject matter hereof, the landscape, is a marginal issue in the work of José Ortega y Gasset. But, warned and attentive reader will soon see that the land border between the thought of Ortega and geography are many. Ortega was explorer geographical theories and intelligent descriptor landscapes. And their raids constantly linking landscape with reflections beyond the geographical, some of which could be considered fundamental philosophical. First of note is the awareness of the need of geography, on one hand the theoretical, a structured, referirse to the circumstance, the nature, to history and society and, other, in the concrete, by observing, the experience or reflection on certain places. And in the test characteristic lack Ortega not geographically, is, on the one hand, landscape interpretation exercise, but, other, also granting literary qualities and thought to certain places, who have been well trained in a certain way culturally.
Any man who hits the ground force your step your plants, expected to skip a source there. A source of knowledge and satisfaction
Meditations on Quixote In Ortega refers to an attitude towards the world, that could be applied to vocational geography: which is more moved by the enthusiasm that the obligation. Ie, the one that does not use things for petty objectives but rather the one that tries to "seek the meaning of what surrounds us". In this attitude lies the best way to approach the facts, the landscape, and best utilization of intellectual: "For Moses, Ortega writes making an allegory, “every rock is a sinkhole”. So any man who hits the ground force your step your plants, expected to skip a source there. A source of knowledge and satisfaction. And, as examples of such mood lively, propone a Rousseau, passion for botany, herborizando up to your canary's cage, and to Goethe, he writes of himself: «Here I am going up and down hills and searching for the divine in herbis et lapidibus». The best attitude to all things, people and, course, landscapes, is enthusiasm.
The rereading of 98 Ortega and enthusiasm brings us back to the landscapes in the proper measure of its necessary support and melancholy intelligence. A look back might be, in this sense, a necessary look at the future.
Landscape Image. The Generation of 98 and Ortega y Gasset, Eduardo Martinez de Pison. Fórcola, 2012. Madrid.
