Landscape in Sight

Landscape in Sight
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 446
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0300080743
ISBN-13 : 9780300080742
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Landscape in Sight by : John Brinckerhoff Jackson

Download or read book Landscape in Sight written by John Brinckerhoff Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Hailed in 1995 by New York Times architectural critic Herbert Muschamp as 'America’s greatest living writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies,' Jackson founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote nearly 200 essays and reviews. This appealing anthology of his most important writings on the American landscape, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together Jackson’s most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, and articles that were originally published unsigned or under various pseudonyms. Jackson also completed a new essay for this volume, 'Places for Fun and Games,' a few months before his death. Focusing not on nature but on landscape - land shaped by human presence - Jackson insists in his writings that the workaday world gives form to the essential American landscape. In the everyday places of the countryside and city, he discerns texts capable of revealing important truths about society and culture, present and past. For this collection Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz provides an introduction that discusses the larger body of Jackson’s writing and locates each of the selected essays within his oeuvre. She also includes a complete bibliography of Jackson’s writings.


Landscape in Sight Related Books

Landscape in Sight
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Categories: Gardening
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Hail
Landscape in Sight
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Landscape in American Guides and View Books
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: Herbert Gottfried
Categories: Landscapes
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first published study of American printed souvenirs and their relationship to the development of touring and immigration. Grounded in scenic thinkin
Trilogy about Several Urban View and Landscape Prints
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: M. Rosa Vives
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-25 - Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Trilogy about Several Urban View and Landscape Prints presents three essays dedicated to the specific observation of prints, by great artists such as Canaletto,
A Primer on Macroeconomics (landscape view)
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: George A. Waters
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Illinois State University

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book bridges the gap between undergraduate textbooks using graphs, and graduate level texts that focus on a single theoretical framework. The text presents