An Introduction to the Study of Landscape DesignMacmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas |
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... scene but with the mind of the beholder , for more than half of what we see comes from the mind . Here then at last we have found the garden - magic of Italy , in the domain of Psychology . " † * End of the introduction to Sketches and ...
... scene but with the mind of the beholder , for more than half of what we see comes from the mind . Here then at last we have found the garden - magic of Italy , in the domain of Psychology . " † * End of the introduction to Sketches and ...
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... though varied aspects of the overhumanized views in and about the town , the student should pass , in a well - devised gradation , to the scenes 1 If the emotional side of his esthetic perception is strong 12 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
... though varied aspects of the overhumanized views in and about the town , the student should pass , in a well - devised gradation , to the scenes 1 If the emotional side of his esthetic perception is strong 12 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
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... scenes . The earth about him may be defiled , but rarely in such measure that it will not yield him good fruit . Every look abroad tempts him beyond himself into an enlarging contact with nature . Not only are the opportunities for this ...
... scenes . The earth about him may be defiled , but rarely in such measure that it will not yield him good fruit . Every look abroad tempts him beyond himself into an enlarging contact with nature . Not only are the opportunities for this ...
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... scene with its surroundings than to the artistic completeness of the scene within itself . * The period of the development of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens covers roughly three centuries . During all this period , though ...
... scene with its surroundings than to the artistic completeness of the scene within itself . * The period of the development of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens covers roughly three centuries . During all this period , though ...
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... scenes each with the express purpose of arousing a certain emotion in its observers . The particular phase of the " land ... scene . Dead trees were set up , perhaps to increase the effect of wild naturalness as well as to stimulate a ...
... scenes each with the express purpose of arousing a certain emotion in its observers . The particular phase of the " land ... scene . Dead trees were set up , perhaps to increase the effect of wild naturalness as well as to stimulate a ...
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Página i - ... the comfort, convenience, and health of urban populations, which have scanty access to rural scenery, and urgently need to have their hurrying, workaday lives refreshed and calmed by the beautiful and reposeful sights and sounds which nature, aided by the landscape art, can abundantly provide.
Página xviii - I have looked studiously but vainly among them for a single face completely unsympathetic with the prevailing expression of good nature and light-heartedness. Is it doubtful that it does men good to come together in this way in pure air and under the light of heaven...
Página ii - The province of landscape architecture is to guide man's modification of the landscape so that he may get the greatest possible esthetic satisfaction of one or both of these two quite different kinds. The resulting beauty might be, at one end of the scale, that of the formal surroundings of a palace — architecture in natural materials to show man's magnificence — or, at the other extreme, that of a woodland solitude — apparently an age-long natural growth — a place of rest from all the works...
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Página 30 - I do not profess to follow either Le Notre or Brown, but, selecting beauties from the style of each, to adopt so much of the grandeur of the former as may accord with a palace and so much of the grace of the latter as may call forth the charms of natural landscape. Each has its proper situation ; and good taste will make fashion subservient to good sense.
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Página 40 - The unending vision of sky and grass; the dim, distant, and ever-shifting horizon; the ridges that seem to be rolled upon one another in motionless torpor ; the effect of sunrise and sunset — of night narrowing the vision to nothing, and morning only expanding it to a shapeless blank ; the sigh and sough of a breeze that seems an echo in unison with the solitude of which it is the sole voice ; and, above all, the sense of lonely unending distance, which comes to the traveller when day after day...
Página xi - ... true taste in landscape gardening, as well as in all the other polite arts, is not an accidental effect, operating on the outward senses, but an appeal to the understanding...
Página 5 - ... (The true critic must combine all three types in himself, and hold the balance by his sense of their reciprocal relations.) He cannot abnegate the right to judge ; he cannot divest himself of subjective tastes which colour his judgment; "but it is his supreme duty to train his faculty of judgment and to temper his subjectivity by the study of things in their historical connections. ) Heraclitus has a weighty saying, which those who aim at sound criticism should bear in mind.* "It behoves us...