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Landscape Appreciation : Theories since the Cultural Turn / David Jacques.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacques, David, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental management.
- Landscape architecture.
- Landscape design.
- Nature (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Packard Publishing Limited, [2019]
- Summary:
- This book examines the many theories of preferred landscape over the last half century and informs those readers teaching or in landscape practice of the main lines of argument so that they can make up their own minds.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- PART A: THE UNFATHOMABLE WORKINGS OF THE UNIVERSE
- 1 Art into Landscape
- The problems with functionalism
- Landscape among the fine arts
- Ideas into form
- The laws of the universe
- Unconscious expression
- Notes and references
- 2. Landscape beauty
- The English countryside
- The selection of the British National Parks
- The search for objectivity
- Formal qualities
- 3. Natural instincts
- Environmental determinism
- Unity with nature
- People and the land
- The imperative of climate and soil
- The ethics of the land
- New landscapes
- Self-ordering complexity
- Stewarding the biosphere
- Prospect, refuge and hazard symbolism
- PART B: THEORISING IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 4. The post-modern condition
- Shattered dreams
- Uncertainty and practical knowledge
- Complexity and chaos
- Cognition
- Consciousness and creativity
- An aesthetic experience
- The use of history
- The sociology of criticism
- 5. Facts, value and ideology
- Reading the landscape
- Knowledge gives value
- The rise of cultural landscapes
- Morality and action
- The logic of ecocentrism
- Deep ecology and ecosophy
- Direct realism
- What if the logic is flawed?
- The metaphysics of nature
- 6. Landscape preferences
- An unconscious recognition of beauty?
- An hereditary feel for beauty?
- Form revealing idea?
- How preferences arise
- Place and pleasure
- Action/Place
- Place and Identity
- landscape and emotion
- Everyday satisfactions
- Landscape assessment methods
- landscape beauty
- landscape character
- 7. Memory maketh humanity
- Restoration tragedies
- Conservation and interpretation
- Change and ephemerality.
- Conservation guidelines for landscape
- Florence Charter 1981
- The desire for accuracy
- US guidelines for the treatment of cultural landscapes 1996
- Architectural principles in gardens
- The integrated approach
- The cultural landscapes approach
- The World Heritage criteria
- La Petite Pierre 1992
- Czerniejewo Guidelines 1994
- Burro Charter 1999
- Unifying the criteria
- 8. Post-modern designs
- Contextualism
- Philosophy becomes design
- Designer ecology
- Land art
- New work in historic contexts
- PART C: REFLECTIONS
- 9. Philosophical movements
- Metanarratives
- Cosmology
- Phenomenology
- 10. Environmental aesthetics
- Ronald Hepburn
- Cognitive vs non-cognitive perception
- Disinterestedness and engagement
- Relevance and preparation
- Objective vs subjective
- 11. Satisfactions
- Sensual pleasure
- Formalism
- Beauty
- The sublime
- Designed landscapes
- The meaning of gardens
- Assessing aesthetic value
- Bibliography
- Abbreviated captions to illustrations
- Credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781837645329
- 1837645329
- OCLC:
- 1378938271
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