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The Iconography of landscape : essays on the symbolic representation, design, and use of past environments / edited by Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 9.Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.Description: ix, 318 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521324378
  • 9780521324373
  • 0521389151 (pbk.)
  • 9780521389150 (pbk.)
  • 9780521324373 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: iconography and landscape / Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove -- 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 / Dennis Cosgrove -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- J.B. Harley.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: iconography and landscape / Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove -- 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 / Dennis Cosgrove -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- J.B. Harley.

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