An American Landscape
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The American Landscape
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Author : Stephen F. Mills
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-19
The American Landscape written by Stephen F. Mills and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with History categories.
American landscapes are some of the best-known images in the world: we recognize Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline, and the streets of San Francisco in a thousand advertisements and TV shows. But how have these places come to be as they are, and why are some places familiar while others are quite unknown? The American Landscape introduces the reader to the changing face of the American environment, tracing the way in which the present array of forests and farms, parks and superhighways, cities and suburbs have come about, and how these changes have been thought about, painted, turned into movie sets, etc.
The Making Of The American Landscape
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Author : Michael P. Conzen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Making Of The American Landscape written by Michael P. Conzen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Architecture categories.
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
Nature And Culture American Landscape And Painting 1825 1875 With A New Preface
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Author : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007-01-05
Nature And Culture American Landscape And Painting 1825 1875 With A New Preface written by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-05 with Art categories.
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
The Making Of The American Landscape
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Author : Michael P. Conzen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Making Of The American Landscape written by Michael P. Conzen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Architecture categories.
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
The American Landscape
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Author : John Conron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The American Landscape written by John Conron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Landscape categories.
Reading The American Landscape
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Author : Lex ter Braak
language : en
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Reading The American Landscape written by Lex ter Braak and has been published by Nai010 Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers.
Pioneers Of American Landscape Design
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Author : Charles A. Birnbaum
language : en
Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
Release Date : 1993
Pioneers Of American Landscape Design written by Charles A. Birnbaum and has been published by Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
Taking Measures Across The American Landscape
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Author : James Corner
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Taking Measures Across The American Landscape written by James Corner and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Photography categories.
Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.
The American Landscape
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Author : Ian Nairn
language : en
Publisher: New York : Random House
Release Date : 1965
The American Landscape written by Ian Nairn and has been published by New York : Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with City planning categories.
The author, an English architect, tells how buildings, gas stations, and parking lots can be brought into a pleasing pattern, with many specific references to American cities.
Consuming The American Landscape
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Author : John Ganis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Consuming The American Landscape written by John Ganis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Landscape photography categories.
Using highly detailed color photographs, John Ganis has chronicled the effects of development and extraction industries in every region of the Continental United States over a period of seventeen years. The subjects of Ganis's images are for the most part flagrantly clear--abandoned wrecks, desolate strip mines, clear-cut forests, industrial parks, landfill sites, and the flattening of terrain for housing -developments--and just as flagrantly disturbing. This is a thesaurus of our "civilized" incursions into the wildness of nature, a charting of our debris-strewn topographies, and a cogent report on our abdication of any reverence -towards the land. In an introductory essay, Robert -Sobieszek, from Los Angeles County Museum, gives an insightful overview of the historical responses to the American landscape and places the work of John Ganis within the context of "the new American pastoral." In 1989, Ganis entered into a collaborative exchange with the noted anthropologist Dr. Stanley Diamond, who wrote the poetry for this book in response to John Ganis's photographs. They represent some of his last and previously unpublished poetic work. John Ganis established his reputation with work on -important environmental issues. His color photographs of land use in America have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art etc. He is currently professor and photography department chair at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.