On Landscapes

Susan Herrington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415991247
• eBook ISBN: 9781317827658
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them.

Drawing on examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, and our understanding of the passage of time. On Landscapes reveals the design work involved in even the most naturalistic of landscapes, and the ways in which contemporary landscapes are turning the challenges of the industrial past into opportunities for the future. Inviting us to thoughtfully see and experience the landscapes that we encounter in our daily lives, On Landscapes demonstrates that art is all around us.

Index

adaptation 129–30

aesthetic experience 12, 97–8, 123–6, 127–30

Agincourt, Battle of 71–2

Albuquerque 36

Alison, Archibald 71

Alzheimer’s patients 115–16

America’s Most Wanted/Unwanted paintings 24–5, 31–2, 113

Anasazi roads 36

anticipation 9, 127, 129–30

Apollo, Fountain of 77

Appleton, Jay 111, 112

Arad, Michael 86

Arendt, Hannah 86

Arnold, Henry F. 124, 125

artificiality 65–6

associative theory 74–5

authorship questions 4–5, 108

Back Bay, Boston 1, 59

Bagel Garden 1–3, 4–5, 6, 8, 13, 21

Baines, Bridget 30

Bamboo Garden 99–100

Barrier Park, London 44–7, 52–3, 113

Barthes, Roland 31

Bavarian Quarter, Berlin 86, 87

Bedford, New York 38–9, 60, 63

Berleant, Arnold 125

bioregionalism 56–7, 58

Blenheim Palace 19

Blue Stick Garden 15–16

Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility 50–1, 93

British Colour Council 68

Broadway Estate 26–8, Tilbury

Bryant Park, New York 131

Budd, Malcolm 61, 62, 68

Bundesgarten Schau 14

Cahokia 55–6

calendar art 25, 113

Calla Lily 113

Camellia flower 69

Canadian studies 61–2, 91–2

Carlson, Allen 12, 105–6, 129

Cartesian model 54, 59

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Who Designs Landscapes? One
• What Can Landscapes Represent? Two
• Are Landscapes Natural? Three
• Memory and Emotion Four
• Instrumental Imagination Five
• Aesthetic Experience Six
• Envoi
• Bibliography
• Index