This celebrated body of work has long been out of print, yet the
comprehensive coverage of major aspects of modern landscape design,
practice and philosophy is as relevant today as when the three
volumes of studies appeared (1960, 1966, 1970). Geoffrey Jellicoe's
purpose has been to study the influences of the past and present on
the way we regard the 'shaping of the land to accommodate the
innumerable activities of the modern world', and the fourteen
selected studies in this volume have both an historical and
contemporary bias. But the author also adopts a philosophical and
psychological approach to his subject, and here his masterly
exposition of the place of symbolism and allegory in the
understanding of landscape design is crucial, for it presages
Jellicoe's development in later works of the underlying importance
of the subconscious in our reaction to and understanding of
landscape. The first study, ' The Italian Garden of the Renaissance
', was given as a lecture from material gathered in 19
General
| Imprint: |
Garden Art Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 1995 |
| First published: |
June 1996 |
| Authors: |
Geoffrey Jellicoe
|
| Dimensions: |
279 x 216 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
250 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-870673-12-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-870673-12-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781870673129 |
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