John Dixon Hunt

Site, Sight, Insight

Essays on Landscape Architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania. Among his numerous books are The Afterlife of Gardens and Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248005
• ISBN-10: 0812248007
• Artikelnr.: 44469386

Autorenporträt

John Dixon Hunt. Foreword by Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
—Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette
Preface
Chapter 1. The Lie of the Land
Chapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in Between
Chapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in Gardens
Chapter 4. Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening
Chapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher
Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .
Chapter 6. Folly in the Garden
Chapter 7. Jardins: Reflections on the Human Condition
Chapter 8. Between Garden and Landscape
Chapter 9. Ekphrasis: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Chapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and Memory
Chapter 11. "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by
gravity as rapture by grief"
Afterword. From Illustration to Landscape
Notes
Index