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Site, sight, insight : essays on landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt ; foreword by Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, John Dixon, author.
- Series:
- Penn studies in landscape architecture.
- Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture.
- Gardens--Philosophy.
- Gardens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them, and what we derive from that looking.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 The Lie of the Land
- 2 Near and Far, and the Spaces in Between
- 3 Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in Gardens
- 4 Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening
- 5 John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .
- 6 Folly in the Garden
- 7 Jardins: Reflections on the Human Condition
- 8 Between Garden and Landscape
- 9 Ekphrasis: Déjà Vu All Over Again
- 10 Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and Memory
- 11 "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"
- Afterword. From Literature to Landscape
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812292749
- 081229274X
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