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Poussin : une journée en Arcadie
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ISBN: 9782081256989 2081256983 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

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Arkadische Kulturlandschaft und Gartenkunst : eine Tour d'Horizon
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Würzburg : Königshausen und Neumann,

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Aus dem Inhalt: Vorwort / Einleitung R. Faber: Arcadia und Utopia. Über politischen Idyllismus / N. Wokart: Nemo in Arcadia. Eine Kritik / I. Alter Orient und Okzident: M. Leutzsch: Transformationen des Paradieses. Wandlungen eines biblischen Topos / H. Harich-Schwarzbauer / J. Hindermann: Garten und Gesellschaft in der römischen Literatur. Sozialer und ästhetischer Diskurs bei Vergil und Plinius dem Jüngeren / II. Europäische Neuzeit und Moderne: C. Holste: "Der Grotta Grundriss gar klärlich vor Augen gestellt". Über manieristische Garten-Grotten / N. Schalz: Eine besondere Pastorale. Zum Eingangs-Chor aus Johann Sebastian Bachs Matthäus-Passion / C. Albert / A. Disselnkötter: Die falschen Versprechen der Gärten: Liebesutopien und -enttäuschungen in der französischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts / M. Niedermeier: Freimaurer und Geheimbünde in den frühen Landschaftsgärten der Aufklärung / W. Reif: Die Alpen und die Schweiz in Literatur und Kunst von der Aufklärungszeit bis zur klassisch-romantischen Epoche.


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Arcadian visions
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ISBN: 1909686697 1909686670 9781909686694 9781909686670 9781909686663 1909686662 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Havertown, PA

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This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world.Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.

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