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Genius Loci
An Essay on the Meanings of Place
Inbunden, 2022
330 kr
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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 …
The Oxford Book of Garden Verse
Av Hunt, John Dixon Hunt
Inbunden, 1993
2041 kr
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There have been poems about gardens for as long as there have been gardens. Gardens have been all things to all men and women: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, of safety and danger, art and nature, public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labour and metaphysical reflection. …
Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Häftad, 1968
576 kr
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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 …
Historical Ground
The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture
Inbunden, 2014
3155 kr
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Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism’s neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past. The process …
Historical Ground
The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture
Häftad, 2014
846 kr
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Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism’s neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past. The process …
The Italian Garden
Art, Design and Culture
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection of essays approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the Middle Ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara …
Figure in the Landscape
Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they …
Garden and Grove
The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid …
La Foce
A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany
Av Benedetta Origo, Morna Livingston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
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814 kr
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The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa …
Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art
Chapters of a New History
Av John Dixon Hunt, Michel Conan
Inbunden, 2002
996 kr
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In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden age of French garden art, in the late …
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Inbunden, 2016
763 kr
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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 …
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
E-bok, 2016
940 kr
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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 …
Garden and Grove
The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175
E-bok, 2016
504 kr
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Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid …
Dialogue Upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire
Av William Gilpin, John Dixon Hunt
Häftad, 2025
176 kr
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Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age
Häftad, 2016
472 kr
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Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first. New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are …
Pope: The Rape of the Lock
E-bok, 1968
627 kr
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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 …
Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place
Inbunden, 2021
491 kr
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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 …
Book of Ruins
Av John Dixon Hunt, David Leatherbarrow
Inbunden, 2022
625 kr
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Book of Ruins offers a survey – not encyclopedic, but substantial – of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect …
Walking & Talking on the here and elsewhere
Häftad, 2025
303 kr
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In Walking & Talking John Dixon Hunt explores the here of the earth beneath our feet and, in a hinterland of thought and conversation, the elsewhere of the mind. He takes us on multiple journeys to both worlds in the company of great writers and artists: John Evelyn on his ascent of a lively …
PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas
Building Ideas
Av John Dixon Hunt, Gina Crandell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
404 kr
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John Dixon Hunt introduces PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how they are designed with the reader/client in mind and the historical implications of such efforts. Peter Walker, Gary Hilderbrand, and Gina Crandell trace the history of …
