Landscape Perspectives

Landscape Perspectives
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 9789402411836
ISBN-13 : 9402411836
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape Perspectives by : Marc Antrop

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.

Man in the Landscape

Man in the Landscape
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780820327143
ISBN-13 : 082032714X
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Man in the Landscape by : Paul Shepard

A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

The Nature of Landscape

The Nature of Landscape
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Publisher : 010 Publishers
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9064504083
ISBN-13 : 9789064504082
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of Landscape by : Han Lörzing

Nature and Landscape

Nature and Landscape
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9780231140409
ISBN-13 : 0231140401
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature and Landscape by : Allen Carlson

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.

Political Landscape

Political Landscape
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 0674686160
ISBN-13 : 9780674686168
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Political Landscape by : Martin Warnke

Whether considering the role of landscape in battle depictions; or investigating monumental figures from the Colossus of Rhodes to Mount Rushmore; or asking why gold backgrounds in paintings gave way to mountains topped with castles; Political Landscape reconfigures our idea of landscape, its significance, and its representations.

Placing Nature

Placing Nature
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Publisher : Island Press
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9781559635592
ISBN-13 : 1559635592
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Placing Nature by : Joan Nassauer

Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised by patterns of farming, forestry, towns, and cities. Placing Nature is a groundbreaking volume in the field of landscape ecology, the result of collaborative work among experts in ecology, philosophy, art, literature, geography, landscape architecture, and history. Contributors asked each other: What is our appropriate role in nature? How are assumptions of Western culture and ingrained traditions placed in a new context of ecological knowledge? In this book, they consider the goals and strategies needed to bring human-dominated landscapes into intentional relationships with nature, articulating widely varied approaches to the task. In the essays: novelist Jane Smiley, ecologist Eville Gorham, and historian Curt Meine each examine the urgent realities of fitting together ecological function and culture philosopher Marcia Eaton and landscape architect Joan Nassauer each suggest ways to use the culture of nature to bring ecological health into settled landscapes urban geographer Judith Martin and urban historian Sam Bass Warner, geographer and landscape architect Deborah Karasov, and ecologist William Romme each explore the dynamics of land development decisions for their landscape ecological effects artist Chris Faust's photographs juxtapose the crass and mundane details of land use with the poetic power of ecological pattern. Every possible future landscape is the embodiment of some human choice. Placing Nature provides important insight for those who make such choices -- ecologists, ecosystem managers, watershed managers, conservation biologists, land developers, designers, planners -- and for all who wish to promote the ecological health of their communities.

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780299174248
ISBN-13 : 0299174247
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic by : Kenneth Olwig

This text is an exploration of the origins and lasting influence of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, and, nature.

Antaeus

Antaeus
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0880011211
ISBN-13 : 9780880011211
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Antaeus by : Daniel Halpern

Nature Framed

Nature Framed
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Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781580933193
ISBN-13 : 158093319X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature Framed by : Eva Hagberg

Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as close as possible to nature while remaining indoors. Featured are dynamic designs by today's most energetic architectural firms including ARO, Tod Williams/Billie Tsien, Diller Scofidio + Renfro as well as up-and-coming smaller firms. Houses vary in scale, complexity, and site to give a broad survey of the potential of this cutting-edge approach.

Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface

Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780195345667
ISBN-13 : 0195345665
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface by : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine