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Gendering landscape art /

To Design Landscape : Art, Nature & Utility / by Dee, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…To Design LandscapeArt, Nature & amp; Utility; Copyright; Contents; Foundations; 1 To design landscape; 2 Craft; 3 Form; 4 The aesthetics of thrift: art, nature and utility; Principles; 5 Sculpting time; 6 All possible forms; 7 Nature, culture, both; 8 Soft, rock-hard and evergreen time; 9 Elemental register; 10 Hand and machine; 11 Modesty and ingenuity in art; 12 Economy of means; 13 Utilitarian form; 14 Context is everything; 15 Raking; Strategies; 16 Abstraction; 17 Hardly; 18 Intervention; 19 Keep; 20 Absence; 21 Lucky; 22 Interplay; Elements; 23 Green; 24 Terrain; 25 Wet; 26 Furnish.…”
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Place matters : critical topographies in word and image

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The open-ended city : David Dillon on Texas architecture by Dillon, David, 1941-2010

Table of Contents: “…The critic's voice -- Rethinking downtown -- The metropolitan landscape -- Arts districts -- Historic preservation -- Texas architects and developers -- Aesthetics and architecture.…”
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The art of contact : comparative approaches to Greek and Phoenician art by Martin, S. Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Culture, Contact, and Art History: Framing the Theoretical Landscape -- Arts of Contact -- Exceptional Greeks and Phantom Phoenicians -- The Rise of Phoenicianism -- Hybridity, the Middle Ground, and the "Conundrum of 'Mixing'."…”
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The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures. by Huang, Michelle Ying-ling

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning Chinese landscape art -- Part III. Conceptualising Chinese art through display -- Part IV. …”
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Ephemeral territories : representing nation, home, and identity in Canada by Manning, Erin

Table of Contents: “…An Excess of Seeing: Territorial Imperatives in Canadian Landscape Art; 2. Beyond Accommodation: National Space and Recalcitrant Bodies; 3. …”
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American wilderness : a new history

Table of Contents: “…Dean -- The fate of wilderness in American landscape art: the dilemmas of "nature's nation" / Angela Miller -- Wilderness parks and their discontents / Benjamin Johnson -- A Sylvan prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and early twentieth-century conservationism / Char Miller -- Gender and wilderness conservation / Kimberly A. …”
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A keener perception : ecocritical studies in American art history / Ecocritical studies in American art history

Table of Contents: “…Braddock and Christoph Irmscher -- Filling the field : the Roanoke images of John White and Theodor de Bry / Timothy Sweet -- Vivification and the early art of William Bartram / Thomas Hallock -- Wonderful entanglements : Louis Agassiz, Antoine Sonrel, and the challenge of the Medusa / Christoph Irmscher -- The fate of wilderness in American landscape art : the dilemmas of "Nature's nation" / Angela L. …”

Representing the environment by Gold, John R., 1949-

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Reading Genesis after Darwin

Table of Contents: “…: the interpretation of Genesis in the nineteenth century / John Rogerson -- Genesis and the scientists : dissonance among the harmonizers / John Hedley Brooke -- Science and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape art / David Brown -- Reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of modern science / David Wilkinson -- All God's creatures : reading Genesis on human and nonhuman animals / David Clough -- Evolution and evil : the difference Darwinism makes in theology and spirituality / Jeff Astley -- "Male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27) : interpreting gender after Darwin / Stephen C. …”

The Routledge history of the American South

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Architecture and landscape art / Christopher Fennell, Shawn Fields, and Rebecca Schumann -- The cinematic South / Lisa Hinrichsen and Daniel Cross Turner -- Southern literature / Taylor Hagood -- Divided by a common past : race and the unfinished revolution of reconstruction / J. …”
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Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic empires : encounters and confluences

Table of Contents: “…/ Mohammad Gharipour -- "Elysian fields such as the poets dreamed of" : the Mughal garden in the early Stuart mind / Paula Henderson -- Garden encounters : Portugal and India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cristina Castel-Branco -- Carved pools, rock-cut elephants, inscriptions, and tree columns : Mughal landscape art as imperial expression and its analogies to the Renaissance garden / Ebba Koch -- Epilogue : Italian Renaissance gardens and the Middle East : cultural exchange in the longue durée / Anatole Tchikine.…”
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Exposed : environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times by Alaimo, Stacy, 1962-

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Images of the Tropics : Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia. by Protschky, Susie

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Hidden New York : a guide to places that matter by Reaven, Marci, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Urban Gatherings -- Hua Mei Bird Garden -- Russian and Turkish Tenth Street Baths -- Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden -- The Magic Table at the Edison Hotel -- The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen -- Webster Hall -- The Cube -- City Play -- Stickball Boulevard and the Stadiums of the Street -- Thomas Jefferson Park Pool -- Empire Roller Skating Center -- Chess Havens -- Coney Island -- Urban Palate -- The Lemon Ice King of Corona -- Coney Island Bialys and Bagels -- Sahadis Specialty and Middle Eastern Foods -- Arthur Avenue Market -- Union Square Greenmarket -- Art and Music, City Style -- The Village Vanguard -- Casa Amadeo Record Shop -- Richmond Barth's Frieze at Kingsborough Houses -- Metropolitan Meanderings -- Quirky Features of the Landscape -- Art in the Subways -- Governors Island -- Urban Nature -- Community Greening -- La Casita Rincón Criollo, Magnolia Tree Earth Center, Liz Christy Bowery-Houston Community Garden -- The Flower District -- Fishing around New York -- City Spirits -- Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum -- Masjid At-Taqwa -- Ganesha Hindu Temple -- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto -- Urban Remembrance -- The Memorials of the Battery -- Strawberry Fields.…”
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Poetry & Geography : Space & Place in Post-war Poetry. by Alexander, Neal

Table of Contents: “…7 'I know this labyrinth so well': Narrative Mappings in the Poetry of Ciaran Carson8 'Whitby is a statement': Littoral Geographies in British Poetry; 9 'Where lives converge': Peter Riley and the Poetics of Place; 10 Envisioning 'the cubist fells': Ways of Seeing in the Poetry of Norman Nicholson; Part III Geopoetics: Landscape, Language, Form; 11 'Wanderer, incomer, borderer/ liar, mother of everything I see': Jo Shapcott's Engagement with Landscape, Art and Poetry; 12 John Burnside: Poetry as the Space of Withdrawal; 13 'Water's Soliloquy': Soundscape and Environment in Alice Oswald's Dart…”
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Maps and memes : redrawing culture, place, and identity in Indigenous communities by Eades, Gwilym Lucas, 1969-

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Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability : Creating Positive Change Through Design. by Zeunert, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Study/discussion questionsFurther reading; interview Tony Wong; 4 Environmental Infrastructure; Grey Infrastructure's Legacy; Landscape's Role; Resilience to Climate Change; Transport; Energy Landscapes; Study/discussion questions; Further reading; interview Dirk Sijmons; 5 Landscape and Food; Food Systems; Food Planning, Policy and Design; Allotment, Community Gardens and Public Foodscapes; Study/discussion questions; Further reading; interview Tim Waterman; 6 Landscape Activism, Art and Beauties; Activist Landscape Art; Landscape Beauties and Sustainability; Study/discussion questions…”
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Jens Jensen : writings inspired by nature by Jensen, Jens, 1860-1951

Table of Contents: “…Extermination of the Oak at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (1901) -- Plan for Hospital Grounds (1901) -- Topiary Gardening (1902) -- Parks and Politics (1902) -- Marring the Landscape (1902) -- Urban and Suburban Landscape Gardening (1903) -- Soil Conditions and Tree Growth around Lake Michigan, Part II (1904) -- Hawthorns in the Landscape (1904) -- Landscape Art : An Inspiration from the Western Plains (1906) -- Some Gardens of the Middle West (1908) -- Improving a Small Country Place (1910) -- Regulating City Building (1911) -- Testimony Regarding Proposed Sand Dunes National Park (1917) -- Report of Mr. …”
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Patience : (after Sebald) : a walk through The rings of Saturn

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Fore! : the Best of John Hopkins on Golf. by Hopkins, John

Table of Contents: “…Golf mourns passing of Peter RydeLandscape art -- the spirit of the amateur; June; Snead swings easily to passing of time; Woods revels in his role as leading man; Vivid tale of golfer who lived life to the full; Cruellest cut of the one that refused to get in the hole; Three steps to danger -- the sting in Merion's tail; Miracle at the 17th; Nairn tests amateur aspirations; Wie ready to make name for herself in city of Fab Four; Midwest farm cultivates a passion for the greens; Faldo ready to take next step towards elusive grand slam; Herbert Warren Wind; July.…”
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Museum Making : Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions. by MacLeod, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…This magical place: the making of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the politics of landscape, art and narrative: Suzanne MacLeod; 6. Narrative space: three post-apartheid museums reconsidered: Nic Coetzer; 7. …”
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Intellectual and Cultural Property Between Market and Community. by Macmillan, Fiona

Table of Contents: “…4.1 Origin and Community (Again) -- 4.2 Decontextualization -- 4.3 Conservation and Destruction -- 5 Authenticity -- 6 Nature and Culture -- 7 Being Flattened by the Capitalist Steamroller -- 6 Explorations in the Cultural Landscape -- Arts Festivals -- 1 Introduction: Here, There and Everywhere -- 2 Definitions: Being Together in no Man's Land -- 3 Saturated by Copyright? …”
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