Unnatural horizons
Subtitle: paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture
By: Allen S. Weiss.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Landscape architecture -- History; Gardens -- Design -- History; Gardens -- Philosophy -- History; Gardens -- Symbolic aspects -- History
Description: Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture, at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing further the issues raised by author Allen S. Weiss's highly acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-174).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 8 Syncretism and Style; title: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the; title: Italian Renaissance Garden; title: 44 Dematerialization and Iconoclasm; title: Baroque Azure; title: 64 The Libidinal Sublime; title: Libertine Gardens of the Enlightenment; title: 84 No Man's Garden; title: New England Transcendentalism and the; title: Invention of Virgin Nature; title: 108 In Praise ofAnachronism; title: Garden as Gesamtkunstwerk.