Unnatural horizons : paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture / Allen S. Weiss.

Main entry:

Weiss, Allen S., 1953-

Title & Author:

Unnatural horizons : paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture / Allen S. Weiss.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174).
Syncretism and Style: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Italian Renaissance Garden -- Dematerialization and Iconoclasm: Baroque Azure -- The Libidinal Sublime: Libertine Gardens of the Enlightenment -- No Man's Garden: New England Transcendentalism and the Invention of Virgin Nature -- In Praise of Anachronism: Garden as Gesamtkunstwerk.
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Summary:

Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture, at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing further the issues raised by author Allen S. Weiss's highly acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity.

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ISBN:

1568981392 (alk. paper)
9781568981390 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Park, Sung Kyu
Landscape architecture History.
Gardens Design History.
Gardens Philosophy History.
Gardens Symbolic aspects History.
Gardens History Philosophy.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Histoire.
Jardins Histoire Philosophie.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Histoire.
Jardins Philosophie Histoire.
Gardens Design
Gardens Philosophy
Gardens Symbolic aspects
Landscape architecture
Gartenkunst
Geschichte
Ikonographie
Landschaftsplanung
Ästhetik
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
tuinen
gardens
tuinieren
gardening
ontwerp
design
filosofie
philosophy
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
geschiedenis
history
landschapsbouw
landscaping
Landscape Architecture (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)

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History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201051
Call No.: SB470.5 .W4 1998
Status: Available

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