Main entry:

Appleton, Jay.

Title & Author:

The experience of landscape.

Publication:

London, New York, Wiley [1975]

Description:

xiii, 293 pages illustrations 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278).
The problem: The problem introduced- a diversity of disciplines- the environmental sciences- perception and the arts -- The quest: Some eighteenth-century milestones- some nineteenth-century milestone s- the advancing fronts of today -- Behaviour and environment: the ethological approach- the atavistic argument- habitat theory- prospect-refuge theory- variables in the experience of landscape -- A framework of symbolism: The symbolic interpretation of landscape- the imagery and symbolism of the prospect- of the hazard- of the refuge- surfaces- light and darkness- levels of symbolism- scale- locomotion -- Balance: The idea of 'balance'- inversion- magnets -- prospect-dominant landscapes- hazard-dominant landscapes- refuge-dominant landscapes- integration and differentiation -- Involvement: Man in nature- nostalgia for the primeval- recreation as environmental experience- participation by proxy -- Landscape in the several arts: Prospect and refuge in contrived landscape- in architecture and urban design- in painting- through the lens- in literature- common themes and intermedia criticism -- Fashion, taste and idiom: Contrasting styles in landscape design- the superficial and the fundamental- the origins of taste- taste as preference -- The aesthetic potential of places: The component of landscape- the evaluation of landscape- case studies: (i) Hawkstone Park, Salop, (ii) the lakes of southern Ontario, (iii) Highway 87, New York State, (iv) Katoomba, New South Wales, (v) Budapest -- Stocktaking.
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Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0471032565
9780471032564

Subject:

Landscapes in art.
Paysages dans l'art.
Landschaft
Mensch
Landschappen.
Psychologische aspecten.
Landschapschilderkunst.
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
Paysage Dans l'art.
Aesthetic value.
Landscape.
Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18336
Call No.: ID:93-B1382
Status: Available