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"Geography of the gaze" offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, Renzo Dibbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the way natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with(...)
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April 2002, Chicago
Geography of the gaze : urban and rural vision in early modern Europe
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"Geography of the gaze" offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, Renzo Dibbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the way natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view" explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityspaces inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. Transladed by Lydia G. Cochrane.
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April 2002, Chicago
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Everyday America surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today. These essays--by journalists, historians, cultural geographers, architects, landscape architects, and planners--constitute a critical evaluation of the(...)
Everyday America : cultural landscape after J.B. Jackson
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Everyday America surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today. These essays--by journalists, historians, cultural geographers, architects, landscape architects, and planners--constitute a critical evaluation of the field's theoretical assumptions, and of the work of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, the pivotal figure in the emergence of cultural landscape studies. At the same time, they present studies of twentieth-century landscapes, from the turn-of-the-century American downtown to the corporate campus and the mini-mall.
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In recent years, landscape has become increasingly recognised as a topic of central importance to a wide variety of disciplines. To a large degree this recognition has been based upon an expanding appreciation of the political aspects of landscape, its ideological character and effects. "Landscapes and Politics" is an innovative cross-disciplinary volume of new writing(...)
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March 2003, London / New York
Deterritorialisations . . . revisioning landscapes and politics
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In recent years, landscape has become increasingly recognised as a topic of central importance to a wide variety of disciplines. To a large degree this recognition has been based upon an expanding appreciation of the political aspects of landscape, its ideological character and effects. "Landscapes and Politics" is an innovative cross-disciplinary volume of new writing which brings together, in a strategic and productive encounter, a broad variety of critical work currently being done in this field. With 28 papers and five photo essays "Landscapes and Politics" presents material by scholars and practitioners from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, cultural studies, English and American literature, film studies, fine art, geography, history, landscape architecture, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. As an important marker of current methodologies, research and practice across these different disciplinary areas Landscapes and Politics is an invaluable resource. It will be of interest to all those concerned with current discourses and debates on landscape and its representation.
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Loin d’être un objet statique, existant en soi, le paysage naît d’une dynamique, d’une construction par-delà la simple présence physique de la nature. C’est donc tout naturellement que le terme la Mouvance désigne ce mouvement évolutif. Dans le même temps, cette dénomination recouvre aussi un mouvement d’idées, celui qui donna naissance, en 1991, à la première formation(...)
La mouvance : cinquante mots pour le paysage
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Loin d’être un objet statique, existant en soi, le paysage naît d’une dynamique, d’une construction par-delà la simple présence physique de la nature. C’est donc tout naturellement que le terme la Mouvance désigne ce mouvement évolutif. Dans le même temps, cette dénomination recouvre aussi un mouvement d’idées, celui qui donna naissance, en 1991, à la première formation doctorale française sur le paysage. Réunis autour de Bernard Lassus, plasticien et paysagiste, on retrouve Augustin Berque, Michel Conan, Pierre Donadieu, Alain Roger, les principaux enseignants de cette aventure, des partenaires venus d’horizons différents (paysagisme, écologie, géographie, sociologie, philosophie). L’ouvrage n’est pas un dictionnaire du paysage, mais un glossaire qui reflète les convictions fondamentales de ces cinq auteurs. Chacun d’eux définit, ici, les dix notions les plus représentatives de sa réflexion. Au total, cinquante mots et références bibliographiques pour penser le paysage au XXIe siècle. Avec dessins de Bernard Lassus.
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This book is an exploration of the common and unusual sites that make up the American landscape.
Real places : an unconventional guide to America's generic landscape
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This book is an exploration of the common and unusual sites that make up the American landscape.
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April 1998, Chicago
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Theory of garden art
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which(...)
Theory of garden art
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Published originally between 1779 and 1785 and comprising five volumes, Hirschfeld's Theory of Garden Art is here translated into English for the first time. In this one-volume abridged edition Linda Parshall translates the essential aspects of the Theory of Garden Art, Hirschfeld's seminal work. The translation is accompanied by an introduction by Parshall, which analyzes Hirschfeld's place in the intellectual and cultural history of his time, and in the history of landscape design. This book will be a useful and authoritative contribution to both the history of landscape architecture and German cultural history.
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May 2001, Philadelphia
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Actes du colloque tenu au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal les 14, 15 et 16 avril 2000. Essais par Christine Bernier, Michel Baridon, Anne Bélanger, Pierre Bonnechere, Thérèse Chabot, Melvin Charney, Danielle Dagenais, Bertrand Dumont, Philip Fry, Catherine Grout, Francine Larivée, Luc Lévesque, Philippe Nys, et Alexander Reford.
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September 2000, Montréal
Art et jardins : nature/culture
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Actes du colloque tenu au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal les 14, 15 et 16 avril 2000. Essais par Christine Bernier, Michel Baridon, Anne Bélanger, Pierre Bonnechere, Thérèse Chabot, Melvin Charney, Danielle Dagenais, Bertrand Dumont, Philip Fry, Catherine Grout, Francine Larivée, Luc Lévesque, Philippe Nys, et Alexander Reford.
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September 2000, Montréal
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
Les carnets du paysage no 5 : printemps/été 2000
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Au sommaire : retour sur une consultation de concepteurs (Frédéric Pousin); la marge et le plein: un lieu de vie pour les tsiganes (Marie-Hèlène Giraud); Du champs de bataille au paysage de guerre (Martin Warne); Des talisman de pierre : les sources ésotériques de l'architecture militaire (Assia Houhou)...
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June 2000, Versailles
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In "Forest and garden", Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential "Garden and Forest" magazine(...)
Forest and gardens : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949
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In "Forest and garden", Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential "Garden and Forest" magazine ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape—Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac" and Jens Jensen's "The Clearing" —that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness.
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe(...)
Trois pierres cinq fleurs : petit traité du jardin japonais
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Depuis des siècles, les Japonais entretiennent une relation très proche avec la nature, et leurs jardins témoignent de ce profond attachement. Chacun d'eux, qu'il soit dédié à la contemplation ou à la promenade, est le résultat d'un travail de conception élaboré tant d'un point de vue architectural que symbolique. Les premiers écrits japonais sur le thème remontent au XIe siècle. Le texte fondateur présenté ici date de 1395, époque fortement marquée par le développement du bouddhisme zen; c'est la première fois qu'il est traduit en français. Dans ce recueil de traditions secrètes, on apprend l'art de poser les pierres, celui de construire «l'île du souffle d'en haut» et d'atteindre ainsi «deux bonheurs et trois biens».... Poèmes de grands auteurs japonais et calligraphies de Keiko Yokoyama viennent délicatement émailler cet étrange traité où la science du jardin mêle souvent recherche esthétique et préoccupations philosophiques.
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