{"product_id":"site-sight-insight-9780812248005","title":"Site Sight Insight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSite, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e —Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The \u003ci\u003eLie\u003c\/i\u003e of the Land\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Near and Far, and the Spaces in Between\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Stourhead Revisited and the Pursuit of Meaning in Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Thomas Whately's \u003ci\u003eObservations on Modern Gardening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois Walked into a Bar . . .\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Folly in the Garden\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \u003ci\u003eJardins\u003c\/i\u003e: Reflections on the Human Condition\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Between Garden and Landscape\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Ekphrasis: Déjà Vu All Over Again\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Preservation in the Sphere of the Mind: Duration and Memory\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. \"ARCH, n. an architectural term. A material curve sustained by gravity as rapture by grief\"\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. From Illustration to Landscape\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405727474007,"sku":"9780812248005","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248005.jpg?v=1730493416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/site-sight-insight-9780812248005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}