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Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning / Robert Mallet ; drawings by Yves Poinsot ; translation by Bryan Woy.
Fine Arts Library SB473 .M27513 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallet, Robert.
- Standardized Title:
- Optique des jardins. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--Design.
- Gardens.
- Landscape architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- Summary:
- Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.
- Contents:
- Lines and punctuation
- Relative scale
- Distance
- Forms, textures, and lighting
- Colors
- The other senses in action.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, libérer l'esprit.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 0393733424
- 9780393733426
- OCLC:
- 668194900
- Publisher Number:
- 99947765376
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