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Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes
Lyle Gomes
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Description for Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes
hardcover. What did Eden look like? The photographer Lyle Gomes observes landscapes that represent the idea of locus amoenus - the pleasant place. The tradition of locus amoenus goes back to the idyllic descriptions of fictional locations, often called Arcadia, in the writings of Sappho, Apollonius, and Virgil, in the imagined period of the Golden Age. Num Pages: 96 pages, 60 duotone photographs. BIC Classification: AGN; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 279 x 15. Weight in Grams: 640.
What did Eden look like? In ""Imagining Eden"" the photographer Lyle Gomes observes landscapes that represent the idea of locus amoenus - the pleasant place. The tradition of locus amoenus goes back to the idyllic descriptions of fictional locations, often called Arcadia, in the writings of Sappho, Apollonius, and Virgil, in the imagined period of the Golden Age. We also recognize this concept in Eden, of course, where it suggests a loss that still haunts our imaginations. It is an idea distinctly different from that of wilderness, for we feel protected in these places - even provided for, though there ... Read more
What did Eden look like? In ""Imagining Eden"" the photographer Lyle Gomes observes landscapes that represent the idea of locus amoenus - the pleasant place. The tradition of locus amoenus goes back to the idyllic descriptions of fictional locations, often called Arcadia, in the writings of Sappho, Apollonius, and Virgil, in the imagined period of the Golden Age. We also recognize this concept in Eden, of course, where it suggests a loss that still haunts our imaginations. It is an idea distinctly different from that of wilderness, for we feel protected in these places - even provided for, though there ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813923826
SKU
V9780813923826
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About Lyle Gomes
Lyle Gomes is Professor of Photography at the College of San Mateo. His work has appeared in publications such as Places and See: A Journal of Visual Culture as well as in numerous exhibits and is part of the permanent colletcion of museums throughout the United States and Europe. Denis Cosgrove Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at UCLA and ... Read more
Reviews for Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes
Because Eden's genius resides in imagination, it is a mobile spirit, always found in place but never confined by place. The spirit of Eden migrates within us, animated through our imaginative responses to actual places in the material world, in our roles as gardeners and poets, painters and photographers. - from the introduction