The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

Cosgrove and Daniels

ISBN 10: 0521324378 / ISBN 13: 9780521324373

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Beschreibung

Appears unread. Dust jacket sunned.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16048

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521324378
• ISBN-13: 9780521324373
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Geography

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Inhaltsangabe

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

Críticas

'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