Description
Book SynopsisSite, 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.
Trade Review"John Dixon Hunt loves to be in gardens, as do many of us who design and build them. But Hunt brings to his visits a critical, informed eye that is founded on his background in literary and art history, and it is this difference that makes him so valuable to the field of landscape architecture." * Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette, from the Foreword *
Table of ContentsForeword
—Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette
Preface
Chapter 1. The Lie of the Land
Chapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in Between
Chapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in Gardens
Chapter 4. Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening
Chapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .
Chapter 6. Folly in the Garden
Chapter 7. Jardins: Reflections on the Human Condition
Chapter 8. Between Garden and Landscape
Chapter 9. Ekphrasis: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Chapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and Memory
Chapter 11. "ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief"
Afterword. From Illustration to Landscape
Notes
Index
