The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 1989. Reprint. Softcover. Beige illus. wraps; 318 pp.; Numerous bw figures. G (Book slightly bent at spine; interior clean.). Item #143485
ISBN: 0521389151
Series: Cambridge Studie in Historical Geography. A collection of 14 scholarly essays. "By applying the art-historical method of iconography -- interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts -- to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural, and political issues." (back cover) Includes studies of sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England and Scotland, twentieth-century Canada, and more.
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