Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape

Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere.

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George Joshua Orwel, a philosopher and writer, is on the adjunct faculty of Hunter College and City Tech, City University of New York. He is writing a book on David Driskell as a Sylvia and Eddie Brown research fellow at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts & Culture of African Americans & the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

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Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere.

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Introduction

1. Concentricity

2. Aura

3. Atmosphere

4. Ambiance

5. Space

6. Envelopment

7. Attunement

8. Sculpted Ambiances

9. Topology

10. Staging

11. Structure of the Book

Chapter One: Aurality

1. Aura

2. Atmosphere

3. Transcendence

4. Qualia

5. Audire

6. Sprit

Chapter Two: Mirageness

1. Freedom

2. History

3. Staging

4. Elemental

5. Materiality

6. Nature

7. Ambient Light

8. Memory

Chapter Three: Earthiness

1. Poetic Ambiance

2. Allure

3. Shadow

4. Assemblage

5. Cityscapes

6. "Sense"

7. Milieu

8. Storm

9. Openness

Chapter Four: Tactility

1. Something

2. Monument

3. Decoration

4. Domination

5. Moment

6. Design

Chapter Five: Vitality

1. Projection

2. Allure

3. Peace

4. Care

5. Anxiety

6. Embodiment

Chapter Six: Sacredness

1. Spiritual

2. Origins

3. Masks

4. Ambiance

5. Syncretism

Conclusion