The iconography of landscape : Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros autores o Colaboradores: Daniels, Stephen (ed.), Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), Pringle, Trevor R., Lucas, John, Harley, J.B, Lewis, G. Malcolm, Woolf, Penelope, Davies, Douglas, Grant, Eric, Osborne, Brian S., Harrison, Mark, Fuller, Peter, Fraser, David, Prince, Hugh
Formato: Libro
Lengua:inglés
Datos de publicación: Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 9
Temas:
Descripción Física:ix, 318 p. : il.
ISBN:0521389151
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The geography of mother nature / Peter Fuller
  • The evocative symbolism of trees / Douglas Davies
  • The political iconography of woodland in later Georgian England / Stephen Daniels
  • Places and dwellings : Wordsworth, Clare and the anti-picturesque / John Lucas
  • Art and agrarian change, 1710-1815 / Hugh Prince
  • Fields of radiance : The scientific and industrial scenes of Joseph Wright / David Fraser
  • The privation of history : Landseer, Victoria and the Highland myth / Trevor R. Pringle
  • The iconography of nationhood in Canadian art / Brian S. Osborne
  • Rhetoric of the western interior : Modes of environmental description in American promotional literature of the nineteenth century / G. Malcolm Lewis
  • Symbolism, 'ritualism' and the location of crowds in early nineteenth-century English towns / Mark Harrison
  • Symbol of the second empire : Cultural politics and the Paris Opera House / Penelope Woolf
  • The sphinx in the north : Egyptian influences on landscape, architecture and interior design in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scotland / Eric Grant
  • The geometry of landscape : Practical and speculative arts in sixteenth-century Venetian land territories / Denis Cosgrove
  • Maps, knowledge, and power / J.B. Harley