Main entry:

Hunt, John Dixon, author.

Title & Author:

Genius loci : an essay on the meanings of place / John Dixon Hunt.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
©2022

Description:

212 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plan ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
1. The Genius Loci of the Ancients and its Modern Revisions -- 2. Does Genius Loci Exist? -- 3. Torcello and the Expression of Place -- 4. Places: J.M.W. Turner, Paul and John Nash -- 5. Poets on Genius Loci: Ut natura poesis -- 6. Travel Writers on Place -- 7. Landscape Architecture and the Fabrication of Place -- 8. By Way of Conclusion

Summary:

For Romans, genius loci was literally ‘the genius of the place’, the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning; while we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, the work of the travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about and remember them.

ISBN:

1789146089 (hardcover)
9781789146080 (hardcover)
9781789146097 (ebook)

Subject:

Landscapes Philosophy.
Place (Philosophy)
Paysages Philosophie.
Lieu (Philosophie)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317176
Call No.: 317176
Copy: 1
Status: Available