Author	Katie Campbell
		Title	Icons of the Twentieth Century Landscape
		Publisher / Date	Frances Lincoln Publishers (1 Oct 2006)
		Edition	Hardcover: 176 pages 9.8 x 11.6 inches
		Description	The twenty-five landscape designs selected for this book have changed the way we look at landscape. Each is here separately explored and illustrated and the reasons for its importance and influence explained. The present state of the sites will be noted - and almost all can be visited - but the main purpose of the book is to show how each subject has both reflected contemporary artistic trends and influenced their course. Visitors today sometimes find these gardens bewildering: their meanings obscure, their aesthetics alien. Katie Campbell shows how in the early years of the twentieth century landscape designers attempted to create a new style for the modern era. They combined industrial materials and avant-garde aesthetics to create startling new spaces. They turned to contemporary art and architecture for inspiration and explored Jungian iconography to imbue their sites with meaning. They erected some extraordinarily potent landscapes. More recently, designers have sought ways to fuse architecture with landscape, to use metaphor, wit and irony or scientific theory, or to evoke the wilderness in city spaces. The book ranges through public and private designs in Europe and the Americas - from Fletcher Steele's steel and concrete to Luis Barragan and Isami Noguchi.
ISBN	978-0711225336
Price	£30