Synopsis: “To read the landscape like a book, as well as to enjoy it as a picture, opens the Way to a new relationship between men and their environment. The health of the landscape, its appearance and men’s response to it are interdependent. So writes Sylvia Qrowe in this perceptive and immensely readable book, in which she analyses the acceptable and detestable features of the landscape we live in. The text is enhanced by 96 colour and 65 black and white photographs, some dating back to the 1930’s mostly taken by Mary Mitchell; also included are many from the collection of he late Stanley Jeeves.
The purpose of the book...” is to introduce the students of landscape design (and the interested layman) to the fundamentals of landscape art - the distillation of the lifetime’s experience of a thoughtful practitioner... Let the student absorb himself/herself deeply in these skillfully chosen pictures, symbols only they may he of reality. The benefit will he at least three-fold an enhanced perception of the natural world unknowingly dulled by the ethos of modern life; a fertilisation of the imagination beyond all measure; and above all confirmation that within the artist, landscape architect or whom you will, lies the power to translate the beauty’ that is in the eve of the beholder into a far grander concept of that which lies, or could lie, in his mind” (Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe in Landscape Design).
Date of Publication: 1998 Paperback ISBN: 1 85341 020 9 Paperback Weight: 600 grams Paperback Price: £15.00 Pages: 127 Images: 161 Book Dimensions: 210 x 297 (mm)
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