ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE CREATING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

BONNEMAISON, SARAH

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ISBN:978-0-415-28359-5
EAN:9780415283595
Editorial: ROUTLEDGE
Fecha de la edición:2003
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Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:378
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This book offers an in-depth look at how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the United States, have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century. The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity.