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Author Crandell, Gina.

Title Nature pictorialized : "the view" in landscape history / Gina Crandell
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: The Nature of Landscape -- Pt. I. Pictorial Developments. 2. Confronting the Spectator: The Ancient World. 3. Staging the Spectacle: Hellenistic and Roman Times. 4. Cloistering the Spectator: The Middle Ages. 5. Centering the Spectator: The Renaissance. 6. Elevating the Spectator: The Renaissance. 7. Bewildering the Spectator: The Northern Renaissance. 8. Landscape Prospects: The Seventeenth Century -- Pt. II. Picturesque Vision. 9. Spectators of the Picturesque: Eighteenth-Century England -- Pt. III. Pictorialization Naturalized. 10. Democratic Landscape: Nineteenth-Century America. 11. The Spectators Perception: The Twentieth Century
Summary By the late nineteenth century, painters had largely abandoned naturalistic portrayal. But the pictorial conception of nature persists to the present day, Crandell contends, in part because the landscape itself has become the repository of pictorial conventions, and landscape architecture the perpetuator of the painter's vision. Nature Pictorialized is the first book to stress the importance of art and literature as forces that have helped shape landscape architecture
For centuries landscape designers have been influenced - often unknowingly - by the conventions of painting and poetry. In Nature Pictorialized, Gina Crandell offers an introduction to the basic concepts of art and literary history as they relate to the discipline of landscape architecture. Beginning with the earliest known encounters between artist and landscape, Crandell traces the process of pictorializing nature through the art of ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. She devotes special attention to seventeenth-century European landscape painting, which provides the model for the eighteenth-century landscape garden. She shows how the "naturalistic" images of these art forms surpassed the mere imitation of the seen world, transforming it instead into a pastoral ideal in which nature is green, attractive, and yielding
Analysis Landscape design History
Landscape design History
Notes Bibliography: p187-192. -Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-192) and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Landscape architecture -- History.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape painting -- Influence.
Landscapes.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Nature -- Pictorial works.
LC no. 92007990
ISBN 0801843979 (alk. paper)