Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban AmericaJohns Hopkins University Press, 01.02.1990 - 264 Seiten Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assess the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gentle irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlie protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteris, "Christian ornithology," and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscaps. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 26
... architects should be able to imitate " many of the circumstances which give variety and spirit to a wild spot , " even in the smallest gardens . " With the painter's " distant vista , " his principles of repetition , sequence and ...
... architects would continue to do , Gilpin referred all questions of taste to the examples of land- scape painting . " We need only appeal to the works of Salvator Rosa , ” he noted , " for the use and beauty of the withered top , and ...
... architect , and , because of the covert quality of naturalistic design , the public at large assumed such gardens were his stock in trade . But formal gardening had fallen into such disfavor among nature lovers and architects themselves ...
Inhalt
Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
13 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.