The Visionary Landscape

Author : Kendall H. Brown
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781462919574

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Visionary Landscapes by Kendall H. Brown Pdf

Japanese gardens are found throughout the world today—their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese gardening book examines the work of five leading landscape architects in North America who are exploring the extraordinary power of Japanese-style garden design to create an immersive experience promoting personal and social well-being. Master garden designers Hoichi Kurisu, Takeo Uesugi, David Slawson, Shin Abe and Marc Keane have each interpreted the style and meaning of the Japanese garden in unique ways in their innovative designs for private, commercial and public spaces. Several recent Japanese-style gardens by each designer are featured in this book with detailed descriptions and sumptuous color photos. Hoichi Kurisu—transformative spaces for spiritual and physical equilibrium. Takeo Uesugi—bright, flowing gardens that evoke joyful living. David Slawson—evocations of native place that fuse with the surrounding landscape. Shin Abe—dynamically balanced "visual stories" that produce meaning and comfort. Marc Keane—reflections on human connections with nature through the art of gardens. Also included are essays on the designers and mini-essays by them about gardens in Japan which have most inspired their work, as well as commentaries by patrons and visitors to their North American gardens. The book focuses on recently-created gardens to suggest how the art form is currently evolving, and to understand how Japanese garden design principles and practices are being adapted to suit the needs and ways of people living and working outside Japan today.

Author : Adrienne Baxter Bell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780807615775

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George Inness by Adrienne Baxter Bell Pdf

The American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of the most thoughtful and inventive artists of his generation. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape presents both a concise overview of Inness's life and work and a focused examination of his philosophical and religious preoccupations. It shows how Inness, inspired by the ideas of the scientist-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772), devised a new artistic vocabulary to convey his understanding of the personal visionary experience. Moreover, it reveals commonalities between Inness's prescient work and efforts by the psychologist- philosopher William James (1842-1910) to validate mystical states of mind. It explains for the first time how Inness treated landscape painting as a form of philosophical inquiry that could communicate his holistic belief in the unity of nature and spirit.

Author : Paul Piehler
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773593640

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The Visionary Landscape by Paul Piehler Pdf

Author : Nina Danino
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114142305

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Visionary Landscapes by Nina Danino Pdf

This is the first book on the widely celebrated filmmaker Nina Danino. Visionary Landscapes includes detailed documentation and analysis of Danino's seminal films, such as First Memory, 1980, a haunting re-visiting of a strange and isolated childhood, Close to Home, 1985, an implicitly political narrative on Danino's personal journey and Stabat Mater, 1990, one of the most important expressions of the British avant garde. Danino's in-depth exploration of the religious experience, a theme that permeates the majority of her films, is unlike that of any other artist. In these works, she skillfully subverts a strictly Catholic interpretation by her use of close-up shots to suggest a narrative of sexual ecstasy. Essays on cinema, sound and the sacred are accompanied by striking images from her films. The book also closely examines the relationship between image and sound, exploring Danino's collaborations with New York vocalist Shelley Hirsch, Russian diva Sainkho Namtchylak and English soprano Catherine Bott. 120 colour & b/w illustrations

Author : Adrienne Baxter Bell,George Inness
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060067710

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George Inness and the Visionary Landscape by Adrienne Baxter Bell,George Inness Pdf

The landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of the foremost American artists of his generation. Born in Newburgh, New York, Inness studied the works of the old masters and, as a young man, painted in the reigning style of the Hudson River School. Within a few years, however, he found himself more attuned to the gestural, expressive approach of the Barbizon School. He greatly admired the free handling of paint and the expression of soulfulness in the works of Theodore Rousseau. Equally important were Inness's philosophical and spiritual concerns. Along with contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Walt Whitman, Inness studied the writings of the Swedish scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). During a trip to Italy in the early 1870s, Inness began to structure his landscapes around geometric forms, a development that may have reflected the Swedenborgian idea that the natural world corresponds to the spiritual world and that geometric forms possess spiritual identities. Through these and other compositional devices, Inness created paintings to inspire an almost "religious experience" in his viewers. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape includes forty color reproductions of Inness's most important paintings and presents both a chronological overview of Inness's life and a more focused treatment of the artist's main philosophical and religious preoccupations. It suggests resonances between Inness's visionary landscapes and the concurrent efforts, on the part of the psychologist/philosopher William James (1842-1910), to validate the existence of mystical states of mind. It shows Inness to have anticipated many of the most importanttenets of modernism, an achievement that continues to inspire contemporary audiences.

Author : C.E. Street
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780951596753

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London City of Revelation by C.E. Street Pdf

Paperback re-print of Earthstars The Visionary Landscape. London's Sacred sites are not scattered about the capital at random.Many form a recognisable pattern of sacred geometry, a vast temple groundplan identical to the design used to lay out Stonehenge's megaliths over 3,500 years ago. Astonishingly, it also relates to the measures and proportions of the New Jerusalem, The City of Revelation. If the conclusions drawn by the author are correct, this pattern is a circuit diagram of the forces of creation and a new evolutionary impulse is coming through our sacred sites, a transformatory influence which will change the way we perceive the world

Author : Sasha Grishin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Landscape painting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009714648

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David Blackburn and the Visionary Landscape Tradition by Sasha Grishin Pdf

Author : Rachael Z. DeLue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226142319

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George Inness and the Science of Landscape by Rachael Z. DeLue Pdf

George Inness (1825-94), long considered one of America's greatest landscape painters, has yet to receive his full due from scholars and critics. A complicated artist and thinker, Inness painted stunningly beautiful, evocative views of the American countryside. Less interested in representing the details of a particular place than in rendering the "subjective mystery of nature," Inness believed that capturing the spirit or essence of a natural scene could point to a reality beyond the physical or, as Inness put it, "the reality of the unseen." Throughout his career, Inness struggled to make visible what was invisible to the human eye by combining a deep interest in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry—including optics, psychology, physiology, and mathematics—with an idiosyncratic brand of mysticism. Rachael Ziady DeLue's George Inness and the Science of Landscape—the first in-depth examination of Inness's career to appear in several decades—demonstrates how the artistic, spiritual, and scientific aspects of Inness's art found expression in his masterful landscapes. In fact, Inness's practice was not merely shaped by his preoccupation with the nature and limits of human perception; he conceived of his labor as a science in its own right. This lavishly illustrated work reveals Inness as profoundly invested in the science and philosophy of his time and illuminates the complex manner in which the fields of art and science intersected in nineteenth-century America. Long-awaited, this reevaluation of one of the major figures of nineteenth-century American art will prove to be a seminal text in the fields of art history and American studies.

Author : Kim Sorvig,J. William Thompson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Erik Davis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811848350

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The Visionary State by Erik Davis Pdf

With a rich cultural history and Hollywood stars publicly attesting to a wide range of faiths, it's no surprise that California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as its natural surroundings. The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism. Acclaimed culture critic Erik Davis brings together the immigrant and homegrown religious influences that have been part of the region's character from its earliest days, drawing connections between seemingly unlike traditions and celebrating the diversity of California's spiritual composition. Michael Rauner's evocative photographs depict the sites and structures where these traditions have taken root and flourished. The Visionary State is a landmark look at what is likely the most varied locale for religious activity anywhere.

Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195353136

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The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain by Toni Huber Pdf

The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.

Author : Adrienne Baxter Bell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780807600092

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George Inness and the Visionary Landscape by Adrienne Baxter Bell Pdf

The essential book on the innovative American landscape painter, with a new preface by the author. A “rare, valuable and luminously illustrated monograph.” (Booklist) This eloquent examination of Inness' most important paintings illuminates the artist’s philosophical and religious preoccupations. It provides an overview of his life and situates Inness within the contexts of key issues in American history, such as the Hudson River School, Transcendentalism, Swedenborgianism, and the work of William James. It explains for the first time how Inness treated landscape painting as a form of philosophical inquiry that could communicate his holistic belief in the unity of nature and spirit. “Bell’s handsomely illustrated, eloquently written, and well-documented text considerably expands previous scholarship. ..[A] first-rate study. Highly recommended.” (Choice)

Author : Piet Oudolf,Fabian de Kloe,Peter Veenstra,Joep Vossebeld
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9462086303

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Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA by Piet Oudolf,Fabian de Kloe,Peter Veenstra,Joep Vossebeld Pdf

In Search of Sharawadgi' presents the ideas and dreams of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. Piet Oudolf is the Netherlands? most well-known garden designer and he has completed such famous projects as the High Line in New York.00This book takes the reader on a journey, showing them how public gardens and landscapes across the world have been transformed. Form the High Line in New York, the gardens of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset, the Star Maze in Tytsjerk to the Leisure Lane in Parkstad. Familiarise yourself with Oudolf?s and LOLA's ultimate vision for the future: a global forest against the warming of the earth. A dream that can start in anyone?s garden, however big or small.00On this journey we are accompanied by the artists Joseph Beuys, Anne Geene, Geert Mul, Sanne Vaassen, Giuseppe Licari and Darcy Neven. With new and existing work, they present us an extraordinary perspective on the discipline of garden design, and major issues such as global warming and the impact of nature on our well-being. 00Exhibition: SCHUNCK Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands (02.05.-03.10.2021).

Author : Martin Wong,Marcia Tucker,Dan Cameron,Illinois State University. University Galleries
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015046908920

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Sweet Oblivion by Martin Wong,Marcia Tucker,Dan Cameron,Illinois State University. University Galleries Pdf

Entirely self-taught, Wong creates intricate compositions that combine gritty social documents, cosmic witticisms, and highly charged symbolic languages - customized manual alphabets for the deaf, street graffiti, Nuyorican poetry, hand-lettered signs, meticulously rendered brick facades, rearrangements of Zodiac signs - sometimes within a single painting.

Author : Matthew Mauger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031377235

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William Blake and the Visionary Law by Matthew Mauger Pdf

This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books, manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study considers Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’.