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  • A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age

    Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first. New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are perceived and...
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  • A World of Gardens by Hunt, John Dixon
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    John Dixon Hunt

    A World of Gardens

    A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved the world over, the style of...
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  • Book of Ruins by Dixon Hunt, John
    John Dixon Hunt

    Book of Ruins

    Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed in the film Requiem for Detroit), the book provides...
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  • Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place

    From literature to landscape architecture, an expansive, contemplative exploration of the significance of place. For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place," the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity...
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  • Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

    Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism's neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past....
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  • John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity

    The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620-1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious, and political life in seventeenth-century England. Evelyn's work is often...
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  • Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture

    Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest...
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  • The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

    English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it...
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  • The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century

    Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form--landscape gardening--and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty...
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  • The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture

    Italian Renaissance gardens were the admiration of Europe and North America. They revived the classical art of garden making, as well as drawing on medieval literary traditions; but they also developed their own forms and styles, even when they began to borrow back ideas...
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  • The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens by Hunt, John Dixon
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    John Dixon Hunt

    The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens

    Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics, and achievements...
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  • The Oxford Book of Garden Verse by Hunt, John Dixon
    John Dixon Hunt

    The Oxford Book of Garden Verse

    Gardens have been all things to all people: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, safety and danger, art and nature; public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labor and metaphysical reflection. This diversity and versatility have always attracted poets, whose repertory of garden...
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  • Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History by Hyde, Elizabeth
    John Dixon Hunt

    Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History

    In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden...
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