The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the status of landscape as a cultural image. By applying the art-historical method of iconography--interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts--to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on the ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial maps and paintings; the historical periods discussed range from sixteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debate on culture and society.
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"...an enlightening, interdisciplinary book that fulfills and perhaps even exceeds their aims. Not only does the Iconography of Landscape offer a `deep' reading of landscape images, in the end it also suggests that the definition of landscape may be as `flickering' and `unstable' as its interpretations." Andrea Kahn in Design Book Review
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Recently, I told a fellow art critic that a group of geographers had expressed an interest in some of the ideas which I had been putting forward: I could see from his expression that he was perplexed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crowd occurrences, picturesque improvement, semiological chain, crowd events, nella pittura, crowd activity, landscape improvement, political iconography, funerary architecture, emigrant guides, mathematical arts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Empire, Queen Victoria, New York, Humphry Repton, Queen Square, Uvedale Price, Royal Sports, United States, John Clare, Richard Payne Knight, Sir Edwin Landseer, John Barrell, Joseph Wright, Lunar Society, Michael Rosenthal, Denis Cosgrove, John Ruskin, Park Street, Stephen Daniels, Tate Gallery, Annals of Agriculture, Broad Street, New Haven, Old Testament, William Mason New!
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Recently, I told a fellow art critic that a group of geographers had expressed an interest in some of the ideas which I had been putting forward: I could see from his expression that he was perplexed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crowd occurrences, picturesque improvement, semiological chain, crowd events, nella pittura, crowd activity, landscape improvement, political iconography, funerary architecture, emigrant guides, mathematical arts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Empire, Queen Victoria, New York, Humphry Repton, Queen Square, Uvedale Price, Royal Sports, United States, John Clare, Richard Payne Knight, Sir Edwin Landseer, John Barrell, Joseph Wright, Lunar Society, Michael Rosenthal, Denis Cosgrove, John Ruskin, Park Street, Stephen Daniels, Tate Gallery, Annals of Agriculture, Broad Street, New Haven, Old Testament, William Mason New!
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- The Group of Seven by National Gallery Of Canada on page 169, page 172, and page 173
- Poems of the Middle Period: Volume V: 1822-1837 (Oxford English Texts) by John Clare on page 76, and page 97
- Egypt and Nubia Hb by William Brockendon on page 238, and page 252
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith on page 50, and page 76
- Sir Edwin Landseer by Richard Ordmond on page 157, and page 158
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- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape (One World Archaeology) by Robert Layton on 8 pages
- Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies (Routledge Advances in Tourism) by Cara Aitchison on 5 pages
- Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies (Routledge Advances in Tourism) by Cara Aitchison on 5 pages
- Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America: Circles in the Sand (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Jess Edwards on 4 pages
- Unifying Geography: Common Heritage, Shared Future by David T. Herbert on page 44, page 236, and page 253
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