The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

Cosgrove, Denis and Daniels, Stephen (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0521389151 / ISBN 13: 9780521389150

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992

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Thumbed and creased covers. A few light creases in spine. 225 x 150 mm. x, 318 pp. B&w figures in the text. First published 1988.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521389151
• ISBN 13: 9780521389150
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, craft, design
  • History

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Synopsis

The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the status of landscape as a cultural image. By applying the art-historical method of iconography--interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts--to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on the ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial maps and paintings; the historical periods discussed range from sixteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debate on culture and society.

Book Description

Fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines explore the status of landscape as a cultural image and reveal it to be an important mode of human communication with respect to social and political issues.