Unnatural Horizons : Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture

Unnatural Horizons Presents A Selective History Of The Last Five Centuries Of Landscape Architecture, At The Intersection Of Poetics And Science, Rhetoric And Technology, Philosophy And Politics. It Investigates The Relations Between Garden Aesthetics And Metaphysics, Discussing Further The Issues Raised By Author Allen S. Weiss's Highly Acclaimed Mirrors Of Infinity. Syncretism And Style: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili And The Italian Renaissance Garden -- Dematerialization And Iconoclasm: Baroque Azure -- The Libidinal Sublime: Libertine Gardens Of The Enlightenment -- No Man's Garden: New England Transcendentalism And The Invention Of Virgin Nature -- In Praise Of Anachronism: Garden As Gesamtkunstwerk. Allen S. Weiss. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 171-174). Machine generated contents note: 8 Syncretism and Style Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Italian Renaissance Garden 44 Dematerialization and Iconoclasm Baroque Azure 64 The Libidinal Sublime Libertine Gardens of the Enlightenment 84 No Man's Garden New England Transcendentalism and the Invention of Virgin Nature 108 In Praise ofAnachronism Garden as Gesamtkunstwerk. This volume presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics.