French Landscapes

Author : Patrick Remy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : France
ISBN : 395829278X

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French Landscapes by Patrick Remy Pdf

A lyrical atlas of the French landscape This book is the first English-language overview of the landscape photography of Thibaut Cuisset (born 1958), who over the last 30 years has explored issues around the environment and notions of territory. Cuisset has photographed the landscapes of many countries, yet he inevitably returns to the terrain of his native France and its infinite variety. With the acuity of the New Topographics photographers, Cuisset captures the French landscape without frills or nostalgia, and reveals it to be the result of historic layers and constant human interventions. The land is perpetually being shaped and transformed, and Cuisset's quiet lens and restrained virtuosity of color record and authenticate these sometimes subtle processes. The images in this book are tranquil, direct and often imbued with a sense of life (despite the absence of human figures). They form a lyrical atlas of the French landscape, and show just how fragile the land's state of balance and upheaval is.

Author : Édouard Kopp
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892369957

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Capturing Nature's Beauty by Édouard Kopp Pdf

Presents an informative introduction to the tradition of French landscape painting. Featuring full-colour illustrations, this title highlights the key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its pre-eminence in the 1800s.

Author : Monique Fort,Marie-Françoise André
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400770225

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Landscapes and Landforms of France by Monique Fort,Marie-Françoise André Pdf

The Landforms and Landscapes of France provides an informative and attractive overview of the most scenic landscapes of France. The geodiversity of France is emphasized, for example the glacial landscapes of the Mont-Blanc Massif, the volcanoes of the French Massif Central, the chalk cliffs and sand dunes of the Atlantic coast, the granitic landscapes of Corsica or the lagoons and coral reefs of French Polynesia. The objectives are to provide the reader with an enjoyable and informative description of the selected sites within their regional geographical and geological settings; to offer an up-to-date survey of the evolution of France's landscape; and to give additional information on the cultural value of the selected sites wherever appropriate (prehistoric paintings, legends related to sites, famous vineyards, etc.). The book is a richly illustrated reference work that makes accessible for the first time a wealth of information currently scattered among many national and regional journals. It will be of benefit to earth scientists, environmental scientists, tourism geographers and conservationists

Author : Magdalena Dabrowski,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Landscape drawing
ISBN : UCSC:32106015569640

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French Landscape by Magdalena Dabrowski,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 27,1999 - March 14, 2000. French landscape is a part of larger exchbition, ModernStarts which is in turn part of a cycle of exchibitions entitled MoMa 2000.

Author : Marlborough Fine Art (London) Limited,Martha Edna Breithaupt,Winifred - Hewetson,J. Russell - Hewetson,Marlborough Fine Art Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Landscape painting, French
ISBN : OCLC:247376466

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French Landscapes by Marlborough Fine Art (London) Limited,Martha Edna Breithaupt,Winifred - Hewetson,J. Russell - Hewetson,Marlborough Fine Art Ltd Pdf

Author : Naomi Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400823048

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Landscapes of Loss by Naomi Greene Pdf

In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and destiny that once shaped French identity has eroded under the weight of recent history, Greene examines the ways in which French cinema has represented traumatic and defining moments of the nation's past: the political battles of the 1930s, the Vichy era, decolonization, the collapse of ideologies. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of films and directors, she shows how postwar films have reflected contemporary concerns even as they have created images and myths that have helped determine the contours of French memory. This study of the intricate links between French history, memory, and cinema begins by examining the long shadow cast by the Vichy past: the repressed memories and smothered unease that characterize the cinema of Alain Resnais are seen as a kind of prelude to a fierce battle for national memory that marked so-called rétro films of the 1970s and 1980s. The shifting political and historical perspectives toward the nation's more distant past, which also emerged in these years, are explored in the light of the films of one of France's leading directors, Bertrand Tavernier. Finally, the mood of nostalgia and melancholy that appears to haunt contemporary France is analyzed in the context of films about the nation's imperial past as well as those that hark back to a "golden age," a remembered paradis perdu, of French cinema itself.

Author : Soraya French
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849944687

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Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media by Soraya French Pdf

A great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher, Soraya French, encourages readers to experiment with mixing media and to create more adventurous paintings and broaden their artistic horizons. The media that Soraya uses in this book are acrylics, pastels and collage and she shows how to bring the best out of mixing these media with handy tips, some simple projects and several step-by-step demonstrations. Landscape, and the way it changes over the seasons, is the ideal subject for experimenting with different textural effects using mixed media. Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media is divided into four seasonal chapters, with each section dealing with the colours, shapes, patterns and textures particular to each season. There is information on mixing colours relevant to each season, as well as interesting ways of painting flowers and other details of nature, how to create exciting compositions, and how to add architectural aspects within the landscape. In some landscapes figures may be added in order to animate the composition and create a narrative. This practical and inspirational book will help and encourage the reader to explore the fascinating potential of mixed media and to adopt a freer attitude in their painting.

Author : Richard Thomson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art and photography
ISBN : 0719049369

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Framing France by Richard Thomson Pdf

Landscape painting in France between 1870 and 1914 was a battleground, fought over by avant-garde and conservative artists, as well as the Left and Right in French politics. This collection of essays by distinguished contributors throws light on how representing the land became an evolutionary vehicle not only for art but society as well. 70 illustrations.

Author : Françoise Fromonot
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035609974

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Transforming Landscapes by Françoise Fromonot Pdf

Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguished institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne’s projects have a strong strategic and conceptual component. Urban infrastructure projects play a major role, and emphasize the urban planning and design expertise evident in his landscape architecture. The book documents ten of Devigne’s major projects from France, the US, Spain and Qatar, in which he is responsible not only for the landscape architecture, but for coordination of the entire project. How can such highly complex projects be realized? What does the intellectual thought process look like? What specific problems arise in their realization?

Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317793700

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The Making of the American Landscape by Michael P. Conzen Pdf

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

Author : John A. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319540092

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Ethnic Landscapes of America by John A. Cross Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive catalog of how various ethnic groups in the United States of America have differently shaped their cultural landscape. Author John Cross links an overview of the spatial distributions of many of the ethnic populations of the United States with highly detailed discussions of specific local cultural landscapes associated with various ethnic groups. This book provides coverage of several ethnic groups that were omitted from previous literature, including Italian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Arab-Americans, plus several smaller European ethnic populations. The book is organized to provide an overview of each of the substantive ethnic landscapes in the United States. Between its introduction and conclusion, which looks towards the future, the chapters on the various ethnic landscapes are arranged roughly in chronological order, such that the timing of the earliest significant surviving landscape contribution determines the order the groups will be viewed. Within each chapter the contemporary and historical spatial distribution of the ethnic groups are described, the historical geography of the group’s settlement is reviewed, and the salient aspects of material culture that characterize or distinguish the group’s ethnic landscape are discussed. Ethnics Landscapes of America is designed for use in the classroom as a textbook or as a reader in a North American regional course or a cultural geography course. This volume also can function as a detailed summary reference that should be of interest to geographers, historians, ethnic scholars, other social scientists, and the educated public who wish to understand the visible elements of material culture that various ethnic populations have created on the landscape.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472221562

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French Landscapes by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Pearson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230228733

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Scarred Landscapes by C. Pearson Pdf

Based on detailed archival research and site visits, Scarred Landscapes is the first environmental history of Vichy France. From mountains and marshlands to foresters and resisters, it examines the intricate and often surprising connections between war, history, and the 'natural' environment during these turbulent years.

Author : C. Pearson
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132228557

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Scarred Landscapes by C. Pearson Pdf

The first environmental history of Vichy France, examining the intricate and often surprising connections between war, history, and the natural environment during these turbulent years.

Author : Yves Luginbühl,Peter Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317108245

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Landscape and Sustainable Development by Yves Luginbühl,Peter Howard Pdf

Previously published in French by Éditions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable development. While led by French scholars, the research team and geographical scope of the project was international, collaborative and comparative. Using case studies from across Europe, the interdisciplinary team of contributors discuss the relationship between landscape as defined by the European Landscape Convention and the concept of sustainable development. This English edition has a new introduction written by Yves Luginbühl and Peter Howard. The book is then divided into three sections: Biophysical Realities and Landscape Practice; Landscape Resources-Inheritance and Renewal; Governance and Participation. Some of the topics covered, such as wind-farm landscapes, will be familiar to English language readers, but others, such as footpath economics, non-woodland trees, inter-generational equity, and the insistence on the necessary developments in governance less so.