Inventing the Landscape
Author : Richard Crozier
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Richard Crozier
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Richard Crozier
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France)
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
The arts.
Author : Barbara Kennedy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1405172665
This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years. Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years. Uses as its central viewpoint changing ideas about the significance of the action of rain and rivers on the Earth’s surface. Shows how our contemporary “truths” have come to be accepted and exposes the frailty of even the most impeccably scientific visions of the Earth.
Author : Tula Telfair
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781419722356
Tula Telfair's hyper-realistic landscape paintings are at once awe-inspiring and extremely personal. Although vividly detailed, the scenes she depicts are not found in nature; they are conjured from memory and imagination. Informed by her experiences growing up on four continents, Telfair produces fantastical visions with delicate brushstrokes and a breathtaking mastery of color and light. Suggestive of waterfalls in Africa, deserts of the American Southwest, and ice floes in Antarctica, Telfair's art draws attention to the power and fragility of nature. Essays by Henry Adams and Michael S. Roth explore the technical and aesthetic aspects of Telfair's work, her personal history, and the interplay between realism and invention.
Author : A. Dwight Baldwin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816623471
The theory of preservation assumes that humans are different from and opposed to the rest of nature. The contributors to "Beyond preservation", on the other hand, explore their belief that humans are inextricably entwined with nature and therefore have an unavoidable impact on the entire ecosystem. The comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach employed by the editors addresses the possibilities of and problems with the restoration of damaged landscapes and even the invention of new ones. William R. Jordan III, a botanist by training, is committed to ecological restoration, and in the keynote essay he advocates the premises on which his theory is based. Poet and essayist Frederick Turner is fascinated with the construction of new landscapes and proposes a more rather than less ambitious human effort to shape nature. Turner contributes an essay that, together with Jordan's, serves as a cornerstone of the volume. Both Turner and Jordan urge us to use our intelligence and our creative faculties to manage nature by restoring damaged landscapes and creating mutually beneficial relationships among all species. The lead essays are followed by a series of broadly interdisciplinary critiques that confront a host of contemporary issues having to do with our attempts to preserve or restore landscapes. Individual essays address the theoretical issues entailed in restoration; examine case studies of the application of restoration/reclamation/preservation theory and techniques; and finally, reflect on the implications and consequences of environmental restoration. Taken together, these essays are as important for the questions they raise as for their individual assessments of Jordan's and Turner's programmatic statements. A. Dwight Baldwin, Jr., is Professor of Geology at Miami University. Judith De Luce is Professor of Classics, affiliate in women's studies, and fellow in the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. Carl Pletsch is Associate Professor of History at Miami University.
Author : Christoph Heinrich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Impressionism (Art)
ISBN : 9780914738916
Featuring rarely seen paintings from the collection of Frederic C. Hamilton of Denver, supplemented by works from the Denver Art Museum, this book presents a broad-ranging history of Impressionist landscape--from the pioneering artists who painted in the forest of Fontainebleau and such paragons and teachers as Courbet, Corot, Daubigny, Boudin, and Manet through the central figures of Impressionism--Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Morisot--and ultimately to Caillebotte, Cézanne, and van Gogh, whose works marked the start of a new era.
Author : John Howe
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813024790
The eleven essays in this volume offer diverse approaches to very different landscapes. Yet they agree in viewing medieval western European landscape as artifact, as territiry constructed by medieval people on several interrelated levels. By helping to articulate how places came to be managed, created, and imagined, they offer their readers a much better apprecitaion of what might be called a "deep ecology" of the Middle Ages. --introd.
Author : Jill E. Pearlman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813926025
"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. - She offers a crucial missing piece to the story - and to the history of modern architecture - by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school's dean and founder."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Pamela J. Belanger
Publisher : Farnsworth Pub.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
A vivid illustrated history of the contributions Hudson River School landscape painters made in the creation of the first national park east of the Mississippi River.