Title & Author:

Drawn to landscape : the pioneering work of J.B. Jackson / edited by Janet Mendelsohn and Chris Wilson ; drawings, watercolors, and photographs by J.B. Jackson ; with contributions from [8 others].

Publication:

Staunton (Va.) : George F. Thompson Publishing, [2015]

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 x 25 cm + 1 DVD

Notes:
Limited hardbound edition of 450 copies that includes Janet Mendelsohn's DVD, "J.B. Jackson and the American landscape".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A life on the stranger's path / Chris Wilson -- J.B. Jackson : drawn to intelligence / F. Douglas Adams -- Portfolio A: Drawings and watercolors by J.B. Jackson, 1931-1994 -- In the beginning was Landscape / Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin -- Portfolio B: Front covers of Landscape, 1952-1991 -- J.B. Jackson's slides : landscape categories for thinking and learning / Paul Groth -- Portfolio C: Teaching slides by J.B. Jackson, 1963-1987 -- Mr. Jackson : edtablishment man, vernacular man, protean man / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- Shop talk : a conversation with the filmmakers / Janet Mendelsohn and Bob Calo -- Passing the torch : landscape studies in the post-Jacksonian age / Timothy Davis -- Appendix A: J.B. Jackson and the Amerian landsscape : the companion DVD by Janet Mendelsohn / Chris Wilson -- Appendix B: Organization of J.B. Jackson'w teaching slides / Paul Groth -- Appendix C: The J.B. Jackson legacy and atchival collection at the University of New Mexico / Chris Wilson.
DVD contents: Figure in a landscape [film] -- The love of everyday places [film] -- J.B. Jackon portfolios : [drawings ; teaching slides] -- Interviews : [participants: Arnold Alanen, geographer ; Miguel Gandert, photographer ; Frank Gohlke, photographer ; Lucy Lippard, writer and curator ; Virginia Scarff, historian ; Chris Wilson, cultural historian].

Summary:

"J. B. (John Brinckerhoff) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape from 1951-1969, v. 1-32, no. 2; spring 1951-1994] a magazine that changed the way everyone--including writers and scholars, planners and designers, artists and the general public--came to understand and interpret the everyday places that surround us and influence us in fundamental ways. Then, through his distinguished teaching career at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and through his expansive array of seminal essays and influential books, Jackson further pioneered the advancement of "landscape studies," whose connections today extend to more than a dozen academic, artistic, and professional fields. Drawn to Landscape is the first book to present fully the many aspects of Jackson's career. Including original essays by those who not only knew Jackson well, but also have carried his torch to new heights in their own work, the book sheds valuable light on Jackson's life, oeuvre, influences, and many legacies. Also included are 126 color illustrations and twenty-eight black-and-white illustrations, among them 117 of Jackson's original drawings, watercolors, and teaching slides. J. B. Jackson redefined landscape not as scenery but as the historical record of human interactions with the environment, whether urban, rural, suburban, social, or wild. He taught us to pay attention to the often overlooked but defining features of our everyday world, whose varied landscapes are created by ordinary people going about their day-to-day lives. And he guided us, from the first issue of Landscape to his last lecture and publication, to look at the landscape like one reads a book. As he proclaimed, "We have but to learn how to read it." This book helps show us the way."-- Publisher's website.
"From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to understand the everyday places that surround us and influence us in fundamental ways. Then, as a lecturer at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, Jackson further pioneered "landscape studies," a field through which he continues to inspire those who study and interpret landscapes, whether urban, rural, suburban, social, or wild. Drawn to Landscape is the first book to present fully the many aspects of Jackson's career. Including original essays by those who not only knew him best but who have carried his torch to new heights in their own respective work, the book sheds valuable light on Jackson's life and oeuvre, from the time of his childhood to his death in 1996, as well as on his many legacies that remain today. Also included, some pieces reproduced for the first time, is a wide-ranging display of Jackson's original drawings, watercolors, and teaching slides. J. B. Jackson taught us to pay attention to the often overlooked but defining features of our landscapes, such as the road and commercial strip, the garage and backyard, and flea markets and borderlands, as well as changing recreational uses of the land, the necessity for ruins and the inherent artificiality of historic preservation, and the importance of the clock--as opposed to the geographical and spiritual grounding of indigenous cultures--in defining our communities, societies, and economies. The book will be a welcome addition to anyone seeking, as Jackson urged, to "read the landscape" in order to understand our everyday world in new and enlightened ways."-- University of Virginia Press website.

ISBN:

193808635X
9781938086359 (hbk.)
9781938086366 (pbk.)
1938086368

Subject:

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996.
Landscape assessment United States.
Landscape architecture United States.
Human geography United States.
Paysages Évaluation États-Unis.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Human geography.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape assessment.
United States.

Added entries:

Mendelsohn, Janet editor.
Wilson, Chris, 1951 December 23- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293081
Call No.: BIB 237716
Status: Available