Traces of J. B. Jackson - The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America

Horowitz brings this singular person to life, revealing how Jackson changed our perception of the landscape and, through friendship as well as his writings, profoundly influenced the lives of many, including her own.

About the author

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emerita of History and American Studies at Smith College, is the editor of Landscape in Sight: J. B. Jackson’s America and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America.

Summary

J.B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of this pioneer in landscape studies, Helen Horowitz shares with us a man who focused on what he regarded as the essential American landscape, the everyday places of the countryside and city.

Product details

• Authors: Helen L Horowitz, Helen L. Horowitz
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780813943343
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4334-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Midcentury: Architecture, Land; Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design; Midcentury
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Biografien: allgemein, Architecture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape