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A World of Gardens

By: John Dixon Hunt

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A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved the world over, the style of gardens themselves varies from region to region, determined as much by culture as climate. In this series of illustrated essays, John Dixon Hunt takes us on a world tour of different periods in the making of gardens. Hunt shows here how cultural assumptions and local geography have shaped gardens and their meaning. He explores our continuing responses to land and reworkings of the natural world, encompassing a broad range of gardens, from ancient Roman times to early Islamic and Mughal gardens, from Chinese and Japanese gardens to the invention of the public park and modern landscape architecture. A World of Gardens looks at key chapters in garden history, reviewing their significance past and present and tracing the recurrence of different themes and motifs in the design and reception of gardens throughout the world. A World of Gardens celebrates the idea that similar experiences of gardens can be found in many different times and places, including sacred landscapes, scientific gardens, urban gardens, secluded gardens, and symbolic gardens. Featuring two hundred images, this book is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration, whether your garden is a window box, a secluded backyard, or a daydream.

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370

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Reaktion Books

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1780233787

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9781780233789

Cotman in the North

Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire

By: David Hill,John Sell Cotman

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Cotman in the North

Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire

By: David Hill,John Sell Cotman

Every major painting, related studies, and the author's own photographs of the locations in which Cotman worked are included in this book, as well as a wealth of new documentary evidence of his time with the Cholmeleys."--BOOK JACKET.

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208

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Yale University Press

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0300107048

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9780300107043

Site, Sight, Insight

Essays on Landscape Architecture

By: John Dixon Hunt

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Essays on Landscape Architecture

By: John Dixon Hunt

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 validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space. Hunt questions our intellectual and aesthetic understanding of gardens and designed landscapes and asks how these sites affect us emotionally. Do gardens have meaning? When we visit a fine garden or designed landscape, we experience a unique work of great complexity in purpose, which has been executed over a number of years—a work that, occasionally, achieves beauty. While direct experience is fundamental, Hunt demonstrates how the ways in which gardens and landscapes are communicated in word and image can be equally important. He returns frequently to a cluster of key sites and writings on which he has based much of his thinking about garden-making and its role in landscape architecture: the gardens of Rousham in Oxfordshire; Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770); William Gilpin's dialogues on Stowe (1747); Alexander Pope's meditation on genius loci; the Désert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081229274X

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9780812292749

A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, belonging to the estate of the late John Allan

By: John Allan

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A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, belonging to the estate of the late John Allan

By: John Allan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

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358

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752580968

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9783752580969

The British Critic

Vol. XXVII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

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The British Critic

Vol. XXVII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1806.

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725

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3368511661

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. I

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Vol. I

By: Thomas Grenville,William Brenchley Rye,John Thomas Payne,Henry Foss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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338513000X

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Heads of State and Government

By: J. Da Graça,John Da Graça

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Heads of State and Government

By: J. Da Graça,John Da Graça

Macmillan published the first edition of this text in 1985. It is a detailed reference to world leaders, monarchs, presidents and their equivalents, executive leaders plus other positions with authority vested in them; heads of ruling communist parties, military junta heads and some leaders with no formal post, but who wield supreme authority. This text is a reference to leaders, past and present, of the countries of the world. The second edition updates the first and includes the far reaching political changes which have taken place in Eastern Europe and the emergence of new states. The scope of the book has been broadened to include more international organisations, more regional government leaders, more governments in exile and colonial governors of the twentieth century.

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Springer

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1349657719

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9781349657711

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A World of Gardens

A World of Gardens

Cotman in the North

Cotman in the North

Site, Sight, Insight

Site, Sight, Insight

A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, belonging to the estate of the late John Allan

A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, belonging to the estate of the late John Allan

The British Critic

The British Critic

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Heads of State and Government

Heads of State and Government

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