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Taking measures across the American landscape / James Corner, essays, drawings, and commentary ; Alex S. MacLean, photographs ; foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection TR660.5 .C67 1996
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TR660.5 .C67 1996
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Fine Arts Library TR660.5 .C67 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corner, James S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape photography--United States.
- Landscape photography.
- United States.
- United States--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 185 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT. : Yale University Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Landscape architect James Corner and aerial photographer Alex MacLean present breathtaking photographs, exquisite map-drawings, and thoughtful essays that record their flights across the United States and express their growing understanding of the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design. 13 b&w illustrations. 115 color plates.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Michael Van Valkenburgh
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part one : essays. The measures of America / Denis Cosgrove
- Aerial representation and the making of landscape
- The American landscape at work
- Taking measure : irony and contradictions in an age of precision
- Part two: measures. Measures of land
- Measures of control
- Measures of rule
- Measures of fit
- Measures of faith.
- Notes:
- Published with assistance from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.
- Designed by Lisa C. Tremaine.
- Set by Highwood Typographic Services, Hamden, Connecticut.
- Printed by C&C Offset Printing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.
- ISBN:
- 0300065663
- OCLC:
- 34190945
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