Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0822959593
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0822973200
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0822943085
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9780822959595
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9780822973201
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9780822943082
Serie:
Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science
Inhalt:
Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and classifying objects to explore notions of audience and context. While other fields, such as art history and geography, have engaged poststructuralist theory to consider vision and representation, the application of such inquiry to the natural or built environment has lagged behind. This book, by treating landscape as a spatial, psychological, and sensory encounter, aims to bridge this gap, opening a new dialogue for discussing the landscap
Inhalt:
Landscape and vision / Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Landscape and invisibility : Gilo's wall and Christo's Gates / W.J.T. Mitchell -- No state of grace : violence in the garden / Martin Jay -- Moving the eye / Marc Trieb -- Landscape and global vision / Denis Cosgrove -- Ancient Rome through the veil of sight / Diane Favro -- Making vision manifest : frame, screen, and view in Islamic culture / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Landscapes within buildings in late eighteenth-century France / David L. Hays -- Sites of power and the power of sight : vision in the California mission landscapes / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- Four views, three of them through glass / Sandy Isenstadt -- Clean and bright and everyone white : seeing the postwar domestic environment in the United States / Dianne Harris
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-310) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sites unseen Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
