Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape

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Hailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove’s Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.

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a photographic exploration of the land of light.

Ghost Ranch: Land of Light
David Scheinbaum
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Ghost Ranch

ASIN: 0964311992

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a photographic exploration of the land of light........1999-09-26

this book takes you on a tour of the land the people and the history of Ghost Ranch New Mexico. the photographs by Janet Russek adn David Scheinbaum are compelling and stunning and expole all aspects of the area. along with the amazing pictures in the book, the essays by well noted southwest historians bring light to the history of the land the people and the union that has occured between the two for cunturies.

Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature (Essays in Art and Culture)

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Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature (Essays in Art and Culture)
Martin Warnke
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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ASIN: 0674686160

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If a river runs through it, somewhere there is bound to be a bridge. Little in the landscape remains untouched by human hands, and every touch, from the simplest ditch to the most intricate monument, reveals a political decision or design. This is how Martin Warnke, one of Germany's leading art historians, looks at landscape in this book, which leads to a new way of seeing nature as we have appropriated, represented, and transformed it over time. Covering nearly a thousand years and most of western Europe, The Political Landscape provides a compelling summary history of modern humanity's ill-fated attempt to master nature.

Warnke finds evidence of the politicized landscape everywhere, on nature's own ground and in art, artifacts, and architecture, in features defined by the demands of conquest and defense, property rights and picturesque improvement, trade, tradition, communication, and commemoration. Whether considering the role of landscape in battle depictions, or investigating monumental figures from the Colossus of Rhodes to Mount Rushmore, or asking why gold backgrounds in paintings gave way to mountains topped with castles, Warnke reconfigures our idea of landscape, its significance, and its representations. The book sharpens our perceptions of nature in art and as art--a nature charged with symbol and meaning as a result of interventions by turns enlightened, insensitive, or, as now, dangerously corrosive.

The Tory View of Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

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The Tory View of Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
Nigel Everett
Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Center BA
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ASIN: 0300059043

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This illuminating and stimulating book argues that the history of English landscape from about 1760 to 1820 reflected a struggle between proponents of a traditional, natural, Christian, organic-or tory-view of the landscape versus those who advocated the aggressive, privatizing, impersonal-or whig-tendencies of contemporary "improvement". Examining literature, painted and engraved images, and the physical environment of the period, Nigel Everett depicts a lively, intelligent debate about the development of English society and the relation of people to the land.

Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature

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Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature
Martin Warnke
Manufacturer: London: Reaktion Books, [1994]. 1st Edition in English, 1st printing. [First published 1992 in German]. 165+[5]pp. Trade paperback. Minor cover wear else a very good tight copy. eng.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000T5ZPEC

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A clear guide to the art, technique and pleasure of portrait drawing, this is much more than a simple how-to book. Learning to draw is as much about how to see as how to do. The author, a practised teacher with many years experience, guides the reader through this most immediate form of human visual expression. Various exercises are set and demonstrated with attention to the evolving talent of the student. Ota-bound for convenience, it is a two-colour book ideal for art teachers and students.

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Excellent.......2002-07-22

I did not buy this book because MBW was an inspirational female or other, but because her photos are simply superb. They capture a feeling, a time and space with a clarity that is both sparse and yet detailed. This is a book to savour and reflect on.

Her sense of design and form was and still is incredible!.......1999-03-04

This book illustrates why Margaret Bourke-White should be recognized as one of the 20th century's top photographers. Her ability to capture a moment during war and destruction or an enternity in marble and stone, is awe inspiring. She was not limited by her feminity. She moved easily into the world of machines and factories, capturing molten metal and shiny blades. Again and again, I return to the book and study all aspects of her photographs. The depth of field, the rhythm, the harmony and the life seen in all her photos takes my breath away. Within a few days of purchasing the book, I had the joy of visiting the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa where there are two Margaret Bourke-White photos in their collection. The soft creamy paper used in these pictures counters the hard metal of the image itself. These are the third and fourth Margaret Bourke-White's I have had the pleasure to see in person. The other two was a copy of the original cover for LIFE magazine and a single rose bud. Both of these photos are owned by Margaret Bourke-White's sorority and are featured in their archival collection. The photographic reproductions in this book, although lacking the soft creams of the Art Gallery's copies, do capture the integrity of her photos. I will treasure this book.

Finally, a book of photographs by Margaret Bourke-White.......1998-10-29

For several years, I would stop in the photography section of whatever bookstore I was in to see if there were any monographs about Margaret Bourke-White's photography. Alas, there were none. Margaret Bourke-White was a remarkable photo-journalist who has given us many remarkable and lasting images of industry, war and society. She joined Life magazine at its founding and died at the time of the magazine's demise in 1972.

This book provides a comprehensive look at her work decade by decade with the best of her best work included with an introduction to each section by Sean Callahan. The appearance of this book is long overdue. A perfect companion to this volume is the biography by Vicki Goldberg.

As documentary images they are as good as any I have seen.......1998-09-22

This large format hard-backed book is a magnificent tribute to one of the world's most renowned women photographers. Published by Pavilion, this landmark retrospective (with a UK street price of 40 pounds) contains 160 pages of some of her most remarkable monochrome images, together with some rarely seen work from her personal archives.

Reproduction is quite literally superb, with the pictures jumping from the page; most images are placed one to a page while some spread the gutter. Those who aspire to create the very best black and white prints should study Bourke-White's work carefully. As fine art photographs they would hang well in any gallery. As documentary images they are as good as any I have seen.

From the 1920s to the 1950s Bourke-White fearlessly recorded objects, people and events that shaped history. First famed as an industrial photographer, she then became on the first staff photographers at Life magazine.

This book is the most complete collection of her work to date and includes photographs from her early days. Images of industrialised America, through to war-torn Korea and the Nazi bombing of Moscow, all show life as it really was, and photographed in such an accomplished way, that the reader can't help but be drawn into them as though it was yesterday.

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An inspiring biography of one of the most successful photojournalists of the 20th century, this life of Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) is exactly the type of book teachers and parents of adolescent girls are looking for. It would be a mistake to treat this as a book for girls only, however, when so many great men--Bourke-White's father, her second husband, several darkroom technicians, and even General Jimmy Doolittle, commander of the 12th Air Force in World War II--figure prominently in it as mentors, teachers, colleagues, and friends. Author Susan Goldman Rubin gracefully deals with sensitive material such as the photographer's shame at discovering that her father was Jewish. And she does a remarkable job of choosing appropriate pictures. As the chief photographer for Life magazine, Bourke-White shot many hugely important but often harsh subjects. Rubin deftly edits these images so that famous photos like the haunting Living Dead of Buchenwald, April, 1945 are here, but not such profoundly disturbing ones as Bourke-White's shot of bony corpses stacked for burning. The author underscores the photographer's extraordinary self-confidence as a young woman of huge ambitions and--beginning with Bourke-White's initial flirtation with the soft-focus style of Edward Steichen--delineates the growing power and clarity of her mature documentary style. Bourke-White's life-long interest in science--she kept jars of multilegged fauna on her office bookshelves at Life--is fascinating, and the stories of her wartime adventures--in marooned life rafts, low-flying reconnaissance planes, and torpedoed ships--are frighteningly vivid.

The photographs themselves are ultimately given pride of place, in large duotone reproductions that do them ample justice. This book would be right for anyone over 10, and older readers might go on to Sean Callahan's Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer, which is more of a traditional monograph and includes those images that tell truths so painful that Bourke-White herself had great difficulty sorting their negatives. --Peggy Moorman

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Great book for young adolescents.......2001-12-30

First off, this is a KIDS book. Interested in Margaret Bourke-White's work I picked this up from the photography section of our local bookstore, but quickly found the simple declarative sentences absolutely maddening.

As a child's book I rate it 4 to 5 stars. Great photo selection and actually quite a lot of interesting information on Ms. Bourke-White's life. As an adult book maybe one star (and that one for the good selection of photos).

Margaret, a pioneering female.......2000-07-27

I didn't know who Margaret Bourke-White was until I received this book as a gift. I have always been interested in photography but never considered it as a career until I read this book. The photos that are in the book are very inspirational. Reading about her life and what she went through to make her dream come true was very interesting. I have had this book for two years and still enjoy looking through her photos.

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You Have Seen Their Faces
Erskine Caldwell , and Margaret Bourke-White
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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ASIN: 082031692X

Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography (Radcliffe Biography Series)

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Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography (Radcliffe Biography Series)
Vicki Goldberg
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley
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ASIN: 0201098199

They called it "Purple Heart Valley";: A combat chronicle of the war in Italy

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They called it "Purple Heart Valley";: A combat chronicle of the war in Italy
Margaret Bourke-White
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006AQI4Q

Margaret Bourke-white: The Early Work, 1922-1930 (Pocket Paragon Series)

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Early Margaret celebrated

Margaret Bourke-white: The Early Work, 1922-1930 (Pocket Paragon Series)
Ronald E. Ostman , Harry Littell , and Margaret Bourke-White
Manufacturer: David R Godine
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ASIN: 1567922996

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was one of the leading photojournalists of her time, a mainstay of the Luce empire whose signature work for Fortune celebrated the machine age and whose later work for Life featured the human face and a "progressive" humanitarian sensibility. Many of her photo essays are classics; indeed those on the Louisville Flood and its victims, on the liberation of the Nazi death camps, and on the poverty of India and Pakistan are now part of the iconography of the twentieth century.

In this brief collection of her earliest work, two art historians present the "unknown" Bourke-White, the young amateur aged eighteen to twenty-six. Her first photographs, created in 1921 under the tutelage of Columbia University's Clarence H. White, were impeccably designed soft-edged still lifes, "painterly" images characteristic of the period but not of the artist. Bourke-White took this technique to college - to the University of Michigan and to Cornell - and there made traditional portraits of campus buildings and, almost by accident, her first "industrial" photograph, a Duchamp-like study of loudspeakers. After graduation she moved to Cleveland, where, trembling with fear and aesthetic excitement, she photographed the interior of the Otis Steel Mill, the trestles of the High Level Bridge, and the new Terminal Tower. It was these thrilling Cleveland photographs, made in 1928-30, that won her an audience with Luce, who sent her on to Fortune . . . and to fame.

The eighty photographs reproduced here have seldom been seen outside the archives of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the University of Syracuse Library. They will fascinate anyone interested in the life and work of Margaret Bourke-White and the early history of American photojournalism.

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Early Margaret celebrated.......2006-03-13

Margaret Bourke-White was a leading photojournalist whose work for Fortune, among others, celebrated the machine age and whose later work for Life featured more of an interest in humanitarian concerns. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE: THE EARLY WORK, 1992-1930 provides a new gathering with a focus on her earliest work, when she was an amateur. Her first photos were still lifes and images more characteristic of her times rather than her talents: one can see the transitions to her personal style in the photos made from 1928-30, and it's also notable that the some eighty photos reproduced here have seldom been seen outside their archives. A 'must' for any in-depth art library.

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The Taste of War (Century Travellers)
Margaret Bourke-White
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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Portrait of Myself (AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART HISTORY)

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Portrait of Myself (AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART HISTORY)
Margaret Bourke-White
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Bourke-White
Vicki Goldberg
Manufacturer: United Technologies Corp
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The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)

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Well Researched, Little Connection
Superb study of American culture emerging into modernity

The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Miles Orvell
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 080784246X

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This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book.

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Well Researched, Little Connection.......2007-01-23

This is not a casual reading book. In order to enjoy this book you have to be interested in Imitation and Authenticity before you crack the cover, because Mile Orvell does not attempt to make the topic friendly. He is well researched, but his writing style is dry, and it feels as if Orvell is trying to show how intelligent he is, rather than adding more to this promising topic.

Superb study of American culture emerging into modernity.......1999-05-04

Orvell's THE REAL THING is the sort of book I wish I'd written. It is entertaining, wide-ranging across many cultural genres, and offers a coherent and stimulating account of American culture in the late 29th and early 20th centuries. It is especially acute on such complex and difficult-to-classify cultural phenomena as the rise of department stores and mass-produced consumer goods, the "aestheticizing" photographs of the machine-age city (and even of machine parts themselves) by such artists as Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. An outstanding study I return to again and again.

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