Main entry:

Crandell, Gina.

Title & Author:

Nature pictorialized : "the view" in landscape history / Gina Crandell.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.

Description:

x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.
Confronting the spectator: the ancient world -- Staging the spectacle: Hellenistic and Roman times -- Cloistering the spectator: the Middle Ages -- Centering the spectator: the Renaissance -- Elevating the spectator: the Renaissance -- Bewilding the spectator: the northern Renaissance -- Landscape prospects: the seventeenth century -- Spectators of the picturesque: eighteenth-century England -- Democratic landscape: nineteenth-century America -- Spectator's perception: the twentieth century.
Also issued online.

Summary:

For centuries landscape designers have been influenced - often unknowingly - by the conventions of painting and poetry. In Nature Pictorialized, Gina Crandell offers an introduction to the basic concepts of art and literary history as they relate to the discipline of landscape architecture. Beginning with the earliest known encounters between artist and landscape, Crandell traces the process of pictorializing nature through the art of ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. She devotes special attention to seventeenth-century European landscape painting, which provides the model for the eighteenth-century landscape garden. She shows how the "naturalistic" images of these art forms surpassed the mere imitation of the seen world, transforming it instead into a pastoral ideal in which nature is green, attractive, and yielding. By the late nineteenth century, painters had largely abandoned naturalistic portrayal. But the pictorial conception of nature persists to the present day, Crandell contends, in part because the landscape itself has become the repository of pictorial conventions, and landscape architecture the perpetuator of the painter's vision. Nature Pictorialized is the first book to stress the importance of art and literature as forces that have helped shape landscape architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801843979 (alk. paper)
9780801843976 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture History.
Landscape painting Influence.
Landscapes.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Landscape assessment.
Nature Pictorial works.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape painting.
Architecture du paysage.
Peinture de paysages.
Nature (Esthétique)
Paysages Évaluation.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
Peinture de paysages Influence.
Paysages.
Nature Ouvrages illustrés.
landscapes (environments)
landscape architecture (discipline)
Nature
Landschaftsplanung
Ästhetik
Geschichte
Landschaftsarchitektur
Landschapschilderkunst.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Landscape design History.
kunst
arts
ontwerp
design
tuinen
gardens
grafische kunst
graphic arts
landschap
landscape
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
schilderijen
paintings
plantmateriaal
planting stock
taxatie
valuation
landschapsbouw
landscaping
Landscape Architecture (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92202
Call No.: ID:93-B616
Status: Available