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Site, sight, insight : essays on landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt ; foreword by Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB469.37 .H865 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, John Dixon, author.
- Series:
- Penn studies in landscape architecture
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture.
- Gardens--Philosophy.
- Gardens.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In this ambitious book John Dixon Hunt shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. The Afterlife of Gardens appeals to both professionals and general readers who have an interest in gardens and landscapes of the past and the present. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The lie of the land
- Near and far, and the spaces in between
- Stourhead revisited and the pursuit of meaning in Gardens
- Thomas Whately's observations on modern gardening
- John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yves-Alain Bois walked into a bar . . .
- Folly in the garden
- Jardins : reflections on the human condition
- Between garden and landscape
- Ekphrasis : deja vu all over again
- Preservation in the sphere of the mind : duration and memory
- "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"
- From illustration to landscape.
- Notes:
- Collection of essays; some are revisions of previously published texts.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Container of: Gillette, Jane Brown, writer of preface.
- Hunt, John Dixon. Lie of the land.
- ISBN:
- 9780812248005
- 0812248007
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