Landscape With Landscape

Author : Gerald Murnane
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925336122

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Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane Pdf

Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. ‘I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most brutally treated in its early years,’ Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, ‘The Battle of Acosta Nu’, is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes.

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820327143

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Man in the Landscape by Paul Shepard Pdf

A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

Author : Cynthia McLaren
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781525549830

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Canada by Cynthia McLaren Pdf

Canada: A Poetic Landscape is a well-considered, joy-filled journey into the vast splendour of the Canadian landscape, its history and heritage, crafted through the lens of an artist turned poet. Experience every province and territory, the book imparts lesser-known information about Canada through colourful, detailed, and whimsical paintings alongside culturally themed stories expressed in verse. From totem poles and inukshuks to the fur trade and the gold rush, from cottage country and maple syrup to high tides and sculptured rocks, from a long history of war to the land cradled on the waves, this book is rich with the uniqueness of each province and territory. Canada: A Poetic Landscape offers an alternative or addition to the map-colouring and memorization of provinces taught in most schools, and provides a more comprehensive understanding of geography and history. Written primarily for children aged ten years and older, this book will inspire readers, young and old, to want to learn more about and experience more of Canada.

Author : Kenneth Pratt,Scott A. Heyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771993154

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Memory and Landscape by Kenneth Pratt,Scott A. Heyes Pdf

The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes. In this beautifully illustrated volume, contributors document how Indigenous communities in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia are seeking ways to maintain and strengthen their cultural identity while also embracing forces of disruption. Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors bring together oral history and scholarly research from disciplines such as linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory. With an emphasis on Indigenous place names, this volume illuminates how the land--and the memories that are inextricably tied to it--continue to define Indigenous identity. The perspectives presented here also serve to underscore the value of Indigenous knowledge and its essential place in future studies of the Arctic. Contributions by Vinnie Baron, Hugh Brody, Kenneth Buck, Anna Bunce, Donald Butler, Michael A. Chenlov, Aron L. Crowell, Peter C. Dawson, Martha Dowsley, Robert Drozda, Gary Holton, Colleen Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Emily Kearney-Williams, Igor Krupnik, Apayo Moore, Murielle Nagy, Mark Nuttall, Evon Peter, Louann Rank, William E. Simeone, Felix St-Aubin, and Will Stolz.

Author : Ms Katrín Anna Lund,Professor Karl Benediktsson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409492696

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Conversations With Landscape by Ms Katrín Anna Lund,Professor Karl Benediktsson Pdf

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing communication that is inherent in any perception, recognising the often-ignored mutuality of encounters between human and non-human actors. With contributions drawn from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, geography, archaeology, philosophy, literature and the visual arts, this book explores the affects and emotions engendered in the conversations between landscape and humans. Offering scope for an original and coherent approach to the study of landscape, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers across a range of social sciences and humanities.

Author : David Sauter
Publisher : Delmar Pub
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0827384270

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Landscape Construction by David Sauter Pdf

Landscape Construction provides detailed instructions for the installation of a majority of landscape elements used today. The text proceeds step-by-step, offering readers a clear, chronological order. First, the construction process is outlined and the pre-construction activities are covered. Then, the steps of site grading, landscape related utility installation building of landscape walls, paving sites, construction of wood improvements, placement of fences and freestanding walls, landscape amenities such as pools, fountains, and site furniture are explained. The text concludes with the installation of plant material and turf areas. Irrigation installation is not included in this text, since that aspect of landscape work has grown into a specialized construction area.ALSO AVAILABLE -- Instructor Supplements:Instructor's Manual (ISBN# 0-8273-8429-7) and Student Workbook Instructor's Manual (ISBN# 0-8273-8430-0). Call Customer Support to Order.

Author : Gareth Doherty,Charles Waldheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317450290

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Is Landscape... ? by Gareth Doherty,Charles Waldheim Pdf

Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both disturb and develop received understandings of landscape architecture. These definitions distinguish between landscape as representational medium, academic discipline, and professional identity. Beginning with an inquiry into the origins of the term itself, Is Landscape . . . .? features essays by a dozen leading voices shaping the contemporary reading of landscape as architecture and beyond.

Author : Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T.T. Forman
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036061318

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Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning by Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T.T. Forman Pdf

This concise handbook lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world. Chapters cover: patches – size, number, and location edges and boundaries corridors and connectivity mosaics summaries of case studies from around the world

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571317875

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Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita. Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and passive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.

Author : Stéph Donse,Bruce Pascoe,Cameron Allan McKean,Marjetica Potrc,Thomas Doxiadis,Katherine Sundermann,Tanya Patrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Natural landscapes
ISBN : 0987634410

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Landscape As Protagonist by Stéph Donse,Bruce Pascoe,Cameron Allan McKean,Marjetica Potrc,Thomas Doxiadis,Katherine Sundermann,Tanya Patrick Pdf

Landscape as Protagonist presents findings, essays and interviews that imagine landscape as the place to begin a built project, not a way to finish it. The book's content is informed by a diverse group of people including landscape architects, architects, gardeners, Indigenous knowledge-holders, horticulturalists, property developers, writers, researchers and artists; addressing the problematic realities of trying to deliver meaningful landscapes in an urban setting.

Author : Rodney James Giblett,Juha Tolonen (Photographer)
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : 1841504726

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Photography and Landscape by Rodney James Giblett,Juha Tolonen (Photographer) Pdf

The field of landscape photography is immense and any general, introductory study like this one is bound to be selective. The book concentrates on landscape photography in the settler societies of Australia and the US. It argues that the camera and landscape photography are tools of empire.

Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015007204749

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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America by Andrew Jackson Downing Pdf

Author : Kim Sorvig,J. William Thompson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918107

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Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition by Kim Sorvig,J. William Thompson Pdf

Basic principles : "Sustainability" in context -- Principle 1 : Keep healthy sites healthy -- Principle 2 : Heal injured soils and sites -- Principle 3 : Favor living, flexible materials -- Principle 4 : Respect the waters of life -- Principle 5 : Pave less -- Principle 6 : Consider origin and fate of materials -- Principle 7 : Know the costs of energy over time -- Principle 8 : Celebrate light, respect darkness -- Principle 9 : Quietly defend silence -- Principle 10 : Maintain to sustain -- Principle 11 : Demonstrate performance, learn from failure -- Sustaining principles, evolving efforts.

Author : John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300035810

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Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson Pdf

A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture. "No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times."--Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape "While it is fashionable to speak of man as alienated from his environment, Mr. Jackson shows us all the ties that bind us to it, consciously or unconsciously. He teaches us to speak intelligently--rather than polemically or wistfully--of the sense of place."--Anatole Broyard, New York Times "This book is a vital and seminal text: do beg, borrow or buy it."--Robert Holden, Landscape Design (London) "Incisive and overpoweringly influential. It will probably tell you something about how you live that you've never thought about."--Thomas Hine, The Philadelphia Inquirer "No one can come close to Jackson in his unique combination of historical scholarship and field experience, in his deep knowledge of European high culture as well as of American trailer parks, in his archivist's nose for the unusual fact and his philosopher's mind for the trenchant, surprising question."--Yi-Fu Tuan

Author : Ron Williams
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 077354206X

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Landscape Architecture in Canada by Ron Williams Pdf

A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada.