Title: Landscape in America /
Authors: Thompson, George F.
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Landscapes United States; Human geography United States; Landscape architecture United States; Landscapes in art; United States Description and travel.
Abstract: "In this collection of specially commissioned essays, nineteen of America's leading writers, artists, and scholars come together to ponder the question "What is landscape?" Recognizing that no one person or discipline can possibly provide the whole answer, George Thompson has chosen a range of viewpoints that, in his words, "attempts to make links between art and science, history and geography, photography and literature, a land ethic and environmental design, management, and planning."" "Landscape in America is the first book to explore the idea of landscape and place in such a broad-ranging way. Designed for the uncommon "common reader," it offers a distinctively American perspective on what landscape is, what it means, and what it represents that will be compelling to the widest possible audience."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: A message to the reader / George F. Thompson -- The spell of the land / Denis Wood -- Notes on living with landscape / Kenneth Lash -- Reading the landscape / John Fraser Hart -- In search of the proto-landscape / John B. Jackson -- Learning from landscape and nature / Calvin W. Stillman -- The geological perception of landscape / Dale F. Ritter -- The range of vision : landscape and the Far West, 1803 to 1850 / E.N. Feltskog -- The sanctified landscape : the Hudson River Valley, 1820 to 1850 / David Schuyler -- Back to the land : immigrants and image-makers in the Lake Superior region, 1865 to 1930 / Arnold R. Alanen -- Home landscape / William Kittredge -- Interior and exterior landscapes : the Pueblo migration stories / Leslie Marmon Silko -- A flat rock : poetry, perception, and landscape / Thomas Rabbit -- Boyhood landscape and repetition / John R. Stilgoe -- Second growth : changing views in New England / Janet Hulings Bleicken -- Beauty in the landscape : an ecological viewpoint / Alan Gussow -- Nature into landscape into art / Lawrence Halprin -- Landscape in motion / John Gamble -- Landscape as an extension of architecture / Charles Montooth -- Landscape is a point of view / Gregory Conniff.