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Landscape Architecture
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is both the art and profession of landscape design, in which topographical, horticultural, and other elements are arranged to suit human use. While humans have shaped landscapes since antiquity, landscape architecture developed as a profession only in... Read more |
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Landscape evolution
landscape evolution ‘Landscape evolution’ is the term used to describe the ways that landscapes evolve or change over time. Some of the earliest geological insights arose from the realization that the Earth has a history and that the landforms on the Earth's surface evolve over time... Read more |
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Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson 1938-73, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began to design large-scale earthworks (see land art ) in the 1960s. Smithson reshaped the landscape in a way that recalled both the forces of nature and ancient archaeological... Read more |
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Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many... Read more |
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Landscape ecology
Landscape Ecology Landscape ecology is the study of the causes and ecological consequences of spatial pattern in landscapes. While there is no specific spatial extent that defines a landscape, most landscape ecologists are interested in large areas ranging from a few square ... Read more |
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John Henry Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman , 1853-1902, American landscape painter and etcher, b. Cincinnati. He studied in Cincinnati under Duveneck and in Munich and Paris, but was influenced principally by the impressionists. Many of his exquisite and atmospheric landscapes in oil and pastel were inspired by the... Read more |
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John Gadsby Chapman
John Gadsby Chapman 1808-90, American painter, b. Alexandria, Va. Chapman is noted for his colored etchings of the Roman compagna and the American landscape. His historical painting The Baptism of Pocahontas is in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.... Read more |
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limner
limner , the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well... Read more |
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Landscapes of indifference: Robert Smithson and John Lloyd Stephens in Yucatan
...some other tropical landscape, nor can it hold Smithson politically accountable...constructs. By repositioning Smithson's project within the context of American travel narrative, my...not simply to provide Smithson with a tidy nineteenth... |
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Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History
...and its upcoming Smithson retrospective under...Tsai, as well as landscape architect Mitchell...Trespassage'On Smithson turf and art historian...Harvard) produces a Smithson who "rewrites American history." This is... |
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Mirror, mirror: Caroline A. Jones on Robert Smithson and...
...and its upcoming Smithson retrospective under...Tsai, as well as landscape architect Mitchell...Trespassage" on Smithson turf and art historian...Harvard) produces a Smithson who "rewrites American history." This is... |
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Robert Smithson. (International Center for Photography, New York City)
...oddly foreign. Part of Smithson's genius was that he scanned the American landscape with the cunning zeal...Rosenberg once called Smithson's art an "excrescence...but, in fact, for Smithson himself his theory was... |
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Delight: Over thiry years after its conception, Robert Smithson's floating...
...conceived in 1970 by American artist Robert Smithson but never realised...the Whitney Museum, Smithson's miniature island...Great Salt Lake, Smithson was a radical who...proposed topography and landscape, so had to be creatively... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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'Idol' blues ; Carly Smithson is coping with the price of fame
...last season's "American Idol," Carly Smithson lived in one of pop...unforgiving entertainment landscape. "When you're...in a fishbowl," Smithson said. "But as soon...bigger bowl." For Smithson, arriving at such... |
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Scale in art.(ART NOTES: clip & save art print)(Robert Smithson's Spiral...
...Robert Smithson (American; 1938-1973). Born in Passaic, N.J., Smithson attended the Art Students...In the late 1960s Smithson became interested in...in the land enabled Smithson to explore chaos and...who said, "I like ... |
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Obituary: Peter Smithson Architect, with his wife and partner Alison, of rich...
...intimate artworks, landscapes and even a novel by...Quant or the Beatles. Smithson was born in Stockton...I first met Peter Smithson in 1953 when I was...nearing completion. Smithson cut a particularly...ground of the unfinished landscape in ... |
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Landscape artist's retrospective at Whitney.(Arts-Events)
...installed in remote landscapes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Robert Smithson, one of America...general public. "Robert Smithson," a retrospective...s Whitney Museum of American Art that reveals Smithson as a maker of fascinating...in ... |
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The Unexpected Prompts City to Alter Media Center Plans
...no trials at all. First, Lindh -- dubbed the American Taliban by some and simply "The Rat" by the New...it was. She is also the widow of the late Robert Smithson, whose landscape art is widely recognized. (Oh, and she reclaimed... |
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