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Publication Name
Site, Sight, Insight
Title
Site, Sight, Insight
Subtitle
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Contributor
Peter Walker (Contributions by)
ISBN-10
0812248007
EAN
9780812248005
ISBN
9780812248005
Genre
Architecture & Antiques
Release Date
12/05/2016
Release Year
2016
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
152mm
Series
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
UPC
9780812248005
Publication Year
2016
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture
Item Height
229mm
Author
John Dixon Hunt
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Width
152mm
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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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 Desert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13
9780812248005
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture
Author
John Dixon Hunt
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

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John Dixon Hunt
Series Title
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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