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Le paysage est un terme flou, ambivalent, polysémique, qui échappe à une définition claire et objective: qu'est-ce-que le paysage? Comment l'apprécie-t-on? Qui décide de sa gestion? Quels types d'aménagements légitime-t-il? L'ambition de cet ouvrage est double: éclairer et préciser le champ des significations du paysage et en explorer la dimension opératoire et(...)
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Le paysage est un terme flou, ambivalent, polysémique, qui échappe à une définition claire et objective: qu'est-ce-que le paysage? Comment l'apprécie-t-on? Qui décide de sa gestion? Quels types d'aménagements légitime-t-il? L'ambition de cet ouvrage est double: éclairer et préciser le champ des significations du paysage et en explorer la dimension opératoire et(...)
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January 2005, Lausanne
January 2005, Lausanne
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La polyphonie du paysage
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Le paysage est un terme flou, ambivalent, polysémique, qui échappe à une définition claire et objective: qu'est-ce-que le paysage? Comment l'apprécie-t-on? Qui décide de sa gestion? Quels types d'aménagements légitime-t-il? L'ambition de cet ouvrage est double: éclairer et préciser le champ des significations du paysage et en explorer la dimension opératoire et politique. Des études de cas enrichissent le débat et proposent des pistes de réflexion autour du paysage en tant qu'objet de négociation collective et territoriale.
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Le paysage est un terme flou, ambivalent, polysémique, qui échappe à une définition claire et objective: qu'est-ce-que le paysage? Comment l'apprécie-t-on? Qui décide de sa gestion? Quels types d'aménagements légitime-t-il? L'ambition de cet ouvrage est double: éclairer et préciser le champ des significations du paysage et en explorer la dimension opératoire et politique. Des études de cas enrichissent le débat et proposent des pistes de réflexion autour du paysage en tant qu'objet de négociation collective et territoriale.
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January 2005, Lausanne
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its(...)
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its(...)
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Settings and stray paths : writing on landscapes and gardens
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its perception: How have humans organized landscapes so that the experience of them could be directed, or even "read," decoded, and understood? His writings include analyses of both historical and contemporary works, with a geographic distribution that treats Asia as well as Europe and North America. Certain essays address the question of content in landscape design, others its meaning; others examine the lives and contributions of major figures in the field, for example, cultural landscape historian John Brinckerhoff Jackson and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo; subjects such as influence also receive the author's attention. As a whole, the essays cover a remarkable range, examining issues that few other writers have attempted to explain in detail. Treib brings a designer's eye to his work, paring observation and formal analysis with a more theorical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced. Photographs by the author complement his writings, adding a visual dimension to the provocative ideas outlined in the essays. While all of these essays have appeared in print over a period of some twenty-five years, many have been published in specialist journals or in a foreign language. Settings and Stray paths assembles a vital collection of Marc Treib's writings on landscape architecture, for the first time in a single source book.
Settings and stray paths : writing on landscapes and gardens
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Studies of the landscape have ranged from discussions of cultural geography at one end and botany at the other, with quite a mix in between. In this book Marc Treib focuses on the subject of the designed landscape, which he takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas, as well as a number of other landscape forms. His writings begin with an investigation of order and its perception: How have humans organized landscapes so that the experience of them could be directed, or even "read," decoded, and understood? His writings include analyses of both historical and contemporary works, with a geographic distribution that treats Asia as well as Europe and North America. Certain essays address the question of content in landscape design, others its meaning; others examine the lives and contributions of major figures in the field, for example, cultural landscape historian John Brinckerhoff Jackson and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo; subjects such as influence also receive the author's attention. As a whole, the essays cover a remarkable range, examining issues that few other writers have attempted to explain in detail. Treib brings a designer's eye to his work, paring observation and formal analysis with a more theorical formulation of the ideas from which or by which landscape architecture is produced. Photographs by the author complement his writings, adding a visual dimension to the provocative ideas outlined in the essays. While all of these essays have appeared in print over a period of some twenty-five years, many have been published in specialist journals or in a foreign language. Settings and Stray paths assembles a vital collection of Marc Treib's writings on landscape architecture, for the first time in a single source book.
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June 2005, London, New York
June 2005, London, New York
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
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Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
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May 2005, Chicago
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The dominion of the dead
The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
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The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.
The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.
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May 2005, Chicago, London
May 2005, Chicago, London
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Ce livre rend compte des différentes recherches entreprises par l'auteure sur les terrains de l'habitat et du jardin, entre les années 1970 et 2000. Le sous-titre résume la position de Clare Cooper Marcus qui parcourt intégralement l'éventail de valeurs comprises entre le pragmatique et le spirituel. A la fois ensemble de directives à l'intention des architectes et somme(...)
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Ce livre rend compte des différentes recherches entreprises par l'auteure sur les terrains de l'habitat et du jardin, entre les années 1970 et 2000. Le sous-titre résume la position de Clare Cooper Marcus qui parcourt intégralement l'éventail de valeurs comprises entre le pragmatique et le spirituel. A la fois ensemble de directives à l'intention des architectes et somme(...)
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Habitat et nature : du pragmatique au spirituel
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Ce livre rend compte des différentes recherches entreprises par l'auteure sur les terrains de l'habitat et du jardin, entre les années 1970 et 2000. Le sous-titre résume la position de Clare Cooper Marcus qui parcourt intégralement l'éventail de valeurs comprises entre le pragmatique et le spirituel. A la fois ensemble de directives à l'intention des architectes et somme de considérations sur l'affectivité autour du logement, cet ouvrage est un recueil de ses principaux textes. C'est la première fois que ses textes sont traduits en français. Clare Cooper Marcus étudie l'architecture paysagiste et devient rapidement une des spécialistes de la recherche portant sur les quartiers d'habitation et les espaces verts. Son interprétation des modes de vie et des manières d'habiter est d'inspiration jungienne, comme le rappelle son ouvrage le plus célèbre «House as Mirror of Self». Clare Cooper Marcus figure parmi les fondateurs de la psychologie de l'environnement. Elle enseigne et travaille comme consultante à l'Université de Berkeley.
Habitat et nature : du pragmatique au spirituel
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Ce livre rend compte des différentes recherches entreprises par l'auteure sur les terrains de l'habitat et du jardin, entre les années 1970 et 2000. Le sous-titre résume la position de Clare Cooper Marcus qui parcourt intégralement l'éventail de valeurs comprises entre le pragmatique et le spirituel. A la fois ensemble de directives à l'intention des architectes et somme de considérations sur l'affectivité autour du logement, cet ouvrage est un recueil de ses principaux textes. C'est la première fois que ses textes sont traduits en français. Clare Cooper Marcus étudie l'architecture paysagiste et devient rapidement une des spécialistes de la recherche portant sur les quartiers d'habitation et les espaces verts. Son interprétation des modes de vie et des manières d'habiter est d'inspiration jungienne, comme le rappelle son ouvrage le plus célèbre «House as Mirror of Self». Clare Cooper Marcus figure parmi les fondateurs de la psychologie de l'environnement. Elle enseigne et travaille comme consultante à l'Université de Berkeley.
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October 2005, Gollion
October 2005, Gollion
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Versailles and the Mechanics of Power explores the significance of the palace and gardens of Versailles. Graafland's exercise consists of superimposing the choreography for the 'Balet Comique de la Royne' of Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx upon the somewhat later gardens of Le Nôtre and the French Sun King. Avoiding a merely visual logic the author analyses the geometric(...)
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Versailles and the Mechanics of Power explores the significance of the palace and gardens of Versailles. Graafland's exercise consists of superimposing the choreography for the 'Balet Comique de la Royne' of Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx upon the somewhat later gardens of Le Nôtre and the French Sun King. Avoiding a merely visual logic the author analyses the geometric(...)
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Versailles and the mechanics of power : the subjugation of Circe, an essay
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Versailles and the Mechanics of Power explores the significance of the palace and gardens of Versailles. Graafland's exercise consists of superimposing the choreography for the 'Balet Comique de la Royne' of Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx upon the somewhat later gardens of Le Nôtre and the French Sun King. Avoiding a merely visual logic the author analyses the geometric character of the human body in that ballet and compares layout and ballet as a mechanics of power in an early symbolic state. Drawing on the many books and essays on Versailles, the author has added the ballet structure, a framework that tells us about the sometimes hidden but mostly very explicit desires of this period. These in turn tell us not only about the gardens and ballet but even more about French society at that time. Completing the book is a set of analytical drawings which give us both the layout of Versailles and the choreography of the 'Balet', explaining the mechanics of bodily discipline in the 17th century.
Versailles and the mechanics of power : the subjugation of Circe, an essay
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Versailles and the Mechanics of Power explores the significance of the palace and gardens of Versailles. Graafland's exercise consists of superimposing the choreography for the 'Balet Comique de la Royne' of Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx upon the somewhat later gardens of Le Nôtre and the French Sun King. Avoiding a merely visual logic the author analyses the geometric character of the human body in that ballet and compares layout and ballet as a mechanics of power in an early symbolic state. Drawing on the many books and essays on Versailles, the author has added the ballet structure, a framework that tells us about the sometimes hidden but mostly very explicit desires of this period. These in turn tell us not only about the gardens and ballet but even more about French society at that time. Completing the book is a set of analytical drawings which give us both the layout of Versailles and the choreography of the 'Balet', explaining the mechanics of bodily discipline in the 17th century.
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January 2002, Rotterdam
January 2002, Rotterdam
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A la découverte du paysage vernaculaire est le premier livre de Jackson traduit en France. L’auteur y définit tout d’abord le paysage : avant d’être contemplé et apprécié esthétiquement, il est produit et habité par les hommes, qui organisent collectivement, selon le principe du bien-être, leur cadre d’existence sur la Terre. Il nous livre ensuite une distinction(...)
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A la découverte du paysage vernaculaire est le premier livre de Jackson traduit en France. L’auteur y définit tout d’abord le paysage : avant d’être contemplé et apprécié esthétiquement, il est produit et habité par les hommes, qui organisent collectivement, selon le principe du bien-être, leur cadre d’existence sur la Terre. Il nous livre ensuite une distinction(...)
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À la découverte du paysage vernaculaire
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A la découverte du paysage vernaculaire est le premier livre de Jackson traduit en France. L’auteur y définit tout d’abord le paysage : avant d’être contemplé et apprécié esthétiquement, il est produit et habité par les hommes, qui organisent collectivement, selon le principe du bien-être, leur cadre d’existence sur la Terre. Il nous livre ensuite une distinction fondamentale entre le "paysage politique" (produit par le pouvoir) et le "paysage vernaculaire" (fabriqué localement par les habitants) qui révèle deux manières d’aménager l’espace à travers l’histoire. Il observe aussi, avec humour, le devenir des paysages contemporains : les parcs publics, l’habitat mobile… et y voit, avec confiance, de nouvelles formes de la conscience paysagère où habiter ne se confond plus nécessairement avec demeurer.
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A la découverte du paysage vernaculaire est le premier livre de Jackson traduit en France. L’auteur y définit tout d’abord le paysage : avant d’être contemplé et apprécié esthétiquement, il est produit et habité par les hommes, qui organisent collectivement, selon le principe du bien-être, leur cadre d’existence sur la Terre. Il nous livre ensuite une distinction fondamentale entre le "paysage politique" (produit par le pouvoir) et le "paysage vernaculaire" (fabriqué localement par les habitants) qui révèle deux manières d’aménager l’espace à travers l’histoire. Il observe aussi, avec humour, le devenir des paysages contemporains : les parcs publics, l’habitat mobile… et y voit, avec confiance, de nouvelles formes de la conscience paysagère où habiter ne se confond plus nécessairement avec demeurer.
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September 2003, Arles
September 2003, Arles
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The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one(...)
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one(...)
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The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one already knew, while the second was grounded in the eye itself. Whereas the first was most likely to lead to a socially and politically elite form of visual cutlure, the second, it was held, would almost certainly end up in the chaos of the mob. But there was another route through these conflicting accounts of the visual that preserved the education of the eye while at the same time allowing the eye freedom to enter into the realm of culture. This third route, that of sentimental look, is explored in a series of contexts: the gallery, the pleasure garden, the landscape park, and the country house. This book sets out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain
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"The Education of the Eye" examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects, two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one already knew, while the second was grounded in the eye itself. Whereas the first was most likely to lead to a socially and politically elite form of visual cutlure, the second, it was held, would almost certainly end up in the chaos of the mob. But there was another route through these conflicting accounts of the visual that preserved the education of the eye while at the same time allowing the eye freedom to enter into the realm of culture. This third route, that of sentimental look, is explored in a series of contexts: the gallery, the pleasure garden, the landscape park, and the country house. This book sets out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
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July 2003, Stanford
July 2003, Stanford
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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill’s The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt’s(...)
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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill’s The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt’s(...)
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Green desire : imagining early modern English gardens
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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill’s The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt’s Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern “books of secrets,” early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily’s hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. "Green Desire" describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men’s and women’s roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world.
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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill’s The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt’s Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern “books of secrets,” early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily’s hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. "Green Desire" describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men’s and women’s roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world.
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October 2003, Ithaca, New York
October 2003, Ithaca, New York
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The dominion of the dead
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living--the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living--the graves, images, literature, architecture, and(...)
Title:
The dominion of the dead
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$33.95
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Summary:
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living--the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us.
The dominion of the dead
Actions:
Price:
$33.95
(available to order)
Summary:
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The dominion of the dead", Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living--the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us.
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books
books
Publication:
November 2003, Chicago
November 2003, Chicago
Subject:
Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
