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Hailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove’s Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.
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"Should be read and reread by all individuals whose work or interests touch on landscape."—Ronald Rees, Geographical Reviews
Denis Cosgrove is Professor of Human Geography at the University of London, Royal Holloway, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Palladian Landscape, The Iconography of Landscape, Engineering the Landscape, and Durability and Change: The Science, Responsibility, and Cost of Sustaining Cultural Heritage.
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“Cosgrove follows the landscape idea as it is articulated in early Renaissance Italy, in the low countries, in Palladian and then in Industrial England, in America, and finally in the modern world.... His discussion of Italy’s social formation at the time of the Renaissance brilliantly interweaves economic and political activities with the development of humanistic culture.”—Mona Domosh, Environment and Behavior
“Every so often a book is written that has the potential to shift the direction of a subfield. This is just such a book.... [It] is not so much about landscape as it is about the idea of landscape, its portrayal in art, and its origin and development in the West since the Renaissance.... [Cosgrove] sees the idea of landscape not only as ‘a way of seeing’ but as a profoundly ideological concept that reveals the way classes portray themselves and their world through an imagined relationship with nature.”—James S. Duncan, Annals of the Association of American Geographers
“One of the more intriguing books by a human geographer in many a long year.... A work of considerable erudition, of delicate, finely tuned artistic judgment, and of bold generalization.”—Cole Harris, Canadian Geographer
"Should be read and reread by all individuals whose work or interests touch on landscape."—Ronald Rees, Geographical Reviews
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- PublisherBarnes & Noble Imports
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0389205400
- ISBN 13 9780389205401
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages293
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. "The historical treatment of culture in its complex relationship with economic and political structures as it shapes its human landscape is the subject of this book." A scholarly monograph discussing the idea of landscape and its expression in Renaissance Italy & Venice, England & America, under industrial capitalism, and in the modern world. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, but a manufacturing defect caused a small lump inside the front cover which has dented the first 30 or so pages; jacket with minor edgewear including one short tear, faded spine. Text clean; [10], 293 pages; index, references, b/w plates. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # w0866
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