The Iconography of Landscape: Essays On The Symbolic Representation, Design And Use Of Past Environments - Brossura

Cosgrove, Denis

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ISBN 10: 0521389151 ISBN 13: 9780521389150

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Riassunto

This book, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image.

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Recensione

'Coherently set core essays best serve the book's central theme, and are likewise the most satisfying scholarly endeavours. The social and political implications of changing landscape imagery emerge in fascinating detail in John Lucas' examination of Wordsworth's and Clare's ambivalence toward the picturesque; in Hugh Prince's reflections on the nostalgic timelessness of rural scenes from Gainsborough and Richard Wilson to Constable and Turner; and, above all, in Daniels' polished chapter on the political iconography of woodland ... Spirited and attentive editing and virtually impeccable bookmaking make this volume a pleasure to read.' David Lowenthal, History Today

Descrizione del libro

The Iconography of Landscape, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521389151
• ISBN 13: 9780521389150
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 330
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile