- Title :
-
Unnatural horizons : paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture
- Author :
- WEISS, Allen S. ;
- Publication year :
-
1998
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- A selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture. Investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics. Chapters are: 'Syncretism and style: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Italian Renaissance garden'; 'Dematerialization and iconoclasm: Baroque azure'; 'The libidinal sublime: libertine gardens of the Enlightenment'; 'No man's garden: New England transcendentalism and the invention of virgin nature'; and 'In praise of anachronism: garden as Gesamtkunstwerk'. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 175 ; 175 p.; ill. ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Esthétique ; Métaphysique ; Paysagisme ; 1500-2000 ;
- Descriptors :
- Aesthetics ; Landscape architecture ; Metaphysics ; 1500-2000 ;
- Document type :
- Ouvrage ;
- INIST identifier :
- 24992320 ;
- ISBN :
- ISBN 1568981392 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Princeton Architectural Press, New York
- Publisher country :
- UNITED STATES ;
