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Landscape In Sight

by John Brinck Jackson
Landscape In Sight

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ISBN13: 9780300071160
ISBN10: 0300071167
Condition: Underlined/Highlighted
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During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (19O9-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Hailed in 1995 by New York Times architectural critic Herbert Muschamp as "America's greatest living writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies", Jackson founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote nearly zoo essays and reviews. This appealing anthology of his most important writings on the American landscape, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together Jackson's most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, and articles that were originally published unsigned or under various pseudonyms. Jackson also completed a new essay for this volume, "Places for Fun and Games", a few months before his death.

Focusing not on nature but on landscape -- land shaped by human presence -- Jackson insists in his writings that the workaday world gives form to the essential American landscape. In the everyday places of the countryside and city, he discerns texts capable of revealing important truths about society and culture, present and past. For this collection Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz provides an introduction that discusses the larger body of Jackson's writing and locates each of the selected essays within his oeuvre. She also includes a complete bibliography of Jackson's writings.


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-392) and index.

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ISBN:
9780300071160
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/01/1997
Publisher:
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages:
440
Height:
9.25 in.
Width:
6.13 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1997
Series Volume:
61
UPC Code:
2800300071162
Author:
John Brinck Jackson
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Landscape assessment
Subject:
United States Description and travel.
Subject:
Human geography -- United States.
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states

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