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  • A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham

    Exploring the Masterpiece of Lord Cobham's Gardens

    de William Gilpin ...
    In "A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham," William Gilpin presents a thought-provoking exploration of 18th-century landscape gardening, employing a conversational format rich in philosophical inquiry. The text intertwines aesthetic principles with personal reflections, allowing readers to navigate the socio-cultural intricacies of gardening as they pertain ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Genius Loci

    An Essay on the Meanings of Place

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    For Romans, genius loci was literally ‘the genius of the place’, the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning; while we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, the work of the ... Leer más

    $31.19 USD

  • The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored – rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps.In The Art of Ruskin ... Leer más

    $51.69 USD

  • L' Art du jardin et son histoire

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Travaux du Collège de France
    La nature sauvage, que les anciens jugeaient horrible et tentaient de domestiquer par places, et que les modernes exaltent pour compenser le progressif bétonnage des sites, a toujours eu quelque chose d'abstrait et de mythique. Si elle existe comme concept, il est impossible de l'atteindre dans la réalité sans la transformer en spectacle. Entre elle et nous s'interpose au moins un regard, c'est-à ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Pope: The Rape of the Lock

    Edición de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    The extended plan of the Macmillan Casebook series embraces two categories of book. Individual Authors: Here each volume contains classic of English literature of a significant modern work; occasional volumes deal with closely related works by the same writer. General Themes: This category includes volumes on literary 'schools' and genres.Each Casebook brings together the best modern criticisms, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into ... Leer más

    $64.79 USD

  • Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Gardens in the Modern Landscape

    A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

    de Christopher Tunnard, John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Gardens in the Modern Landscape

    A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

    de Christopher Tunnard, John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Site, Sight, Insight

    Essays on Landscape Architecture

    de John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, Jane Brown Gillette ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    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. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Making of Place

    Modern and Contemporary Gardens

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honour the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics and achievements in garden design throughout the world today. 
From imposing sculptures discovered in woodlands or on hilly trails to community gardens, ... Leer más

    $32.79 USD

  • The Afterlife of Gardens

    de John Dixon Hunt ...
    Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gardens have been experienced. Using examples from many sites around the world, John Dixon Hunt examines responses to gardens, from Renaissance sites to Baroque creations to modern motorway landscaping. Examining how a garden has been experienced extends ... Leer más

    $45.09 USD