John Dixon Hunt
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Dixon Hunt is an English landscape historian whose academic career began with teaching English literature. He became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and served as the department chair of landscape architecture and regional planning until June 2000, now being emeritus. One aspect of his work focuses on the time between the turn of the seventeenth through the end of the 18th centuries in France and England. He is the author of many articles, not only in landscape journals but also Apollo, Lincoln Center Theater Review, and Comparative Criticism, and chapters on topics including T. S. Eliot and modern painting, Utopia in and as garden, and garden as commemoration.
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Published Works
- Catalogue (2005) (116)
- Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000) (111)
- Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (1992) (104)
- The Genius of the place: The English landscape garden, 1620-1820 (1975) (74)
- The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century (1989) (60)
- The curious perspective : literary and pictorial wit in the seventeenth century (1983) (44)
- Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 (1986) (40)
- The Picturesque Garden in Europe (2002) (40)
- Ut Pictura Poesis, Ut Pictura Hortus, and the Picturesque (1985) (36)
- The Afterlife of Gardens (2004) (31)
- The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin (1982) (25)
- The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination, 1848-1900 (1968) (21)
- Emblem and Expressionism in the Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden (1971) (18)
- The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820@@@The Figure in the Landscape (1978) (15)
- Tradition and innovation in French garden art : chapters of a new history (2002) (12)
- Stourhead revisited & the pursuit of meaning in gardens (2006) (10)
- William Kent: Landscape Garden Designer : An Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs (1989) (10)
- PICTURESQUE MIRRORS AND THE RUINS OF THE PAST (1981) (10)
- Garden history : issues, approaches, methods (1992) (7)
- Religious thought in England, from the Reformation to the end of last century (2011) (7)
- Pictura, Scriptura, and Theatrum: Shakespeare and the Emblem (1989) (6)
- Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (2005) (6)
- The Vernacular garden (1993) (5)
- Experiencing gardens in the Hypnerotomachia Polifili (1998) (5)
- Andrew Marvell: His Life and Writings (1978) (5)
- Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture (2014) (4)
- Landscape in the Gardens and the Literature of Eighteenth-Century England (1984) (4)
- Art, Word and Image: Two Thousand Years of Visual/Textual Interaction (2010) (4)
- Pope: The rape of the lock (1968) (4)
- Metamaterials for Computational Imaging (2013) (4)
- MILTON AND THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN (1981) (4)
- The Dutch garden in the seventeenth century (1990) (4)
- The Italian garden : art, design and culture (1997) (4)
- Ruskin: The Design of Nature and the Transcription of Its Manuscript (1997) (3)
- Preface to the 1996 Edition (1996) (3)
- A Cultural History of Gardens (2013) (3)
- Muddle and Mystery in A Passage to India (1966) (3)
- Ut pictura poesis, the picturesque, and John Ruskin (1978) (3)
- Picturesque & the America of William Birch ‘The singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’ (2012) (3)
- Introduction The immediate garden and the larger landscape (1999) (3)
- Humphry Repton and garden history (1996) (3)
- The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception (2009) (2)
- Pope The Rape of the Lock - A Casebook (1968) (2)
- Art, Word and Image (2010) (2)
- The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin (1982) (2)
- The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance.Terry Comito (1979) (2)
- Gardens and the Picturesque.@@@Coup d'Oeil at Beloeil and a Great Number of European Gardens. (1994) (2)
- A Grassroots Effort toRenew the Schoolyard:The Learning Garden (2010) (2)
- A Natural History of English Gardening (2017) (2)
- Time of walking (2016) (2)
- “A breakthrough in dahlia studies” on Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (1996) (2)
- "What's Water but the Generated Soul?": The Metaphysics of Water in the Landscape Garden (1970) (2)
- Religious Thought in England in the Nineteenth Century (2005) (2)
- The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception (2009) (2)
- The Oxford book of garden verse (1994) (1)
- African-American gardens and yards in the rural south: Richard Westmacott, 198 pp., 1992, University of Tennessee Press, $24.95 pbk (1993) (1)
- John Ruskin, Claude Lorrain, Robert Smithson, Christopher Tunnard, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Yve-Alain Bois walked into a bar . . (2012) (1)
- Aberglasney: ‘an enigmatic cloister range’1 (1991) (1)
- What Is Wrong with Nostalgia Anyway? (2013) (1)
- A Garden and a Grave (1984) (1)
- Early landscape architects who weren’t ‘landscape architects’ (2014) (1)
- Sculpture gardens and sculpture in gardens (2020) (1)
- The garden in the city of Venice: epitome of state and site (1999) (1)
- Anne Helmreich. The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870–1914 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 282. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-59293-3. (2004) (1)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay and the commonplace - book to garden and back (2005) (1)
- Folly In The Garden (2008) (1)
- A critical commentary on Shakespeare's 'the tempest' (1968) (1)
- Cultural landscapes: Gilbert White and the natural history of Selbourne (1992) (1)
- Constructivism Understood (2003) (1)
- The plot of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its afterlives (2015) (1)
- Garden and Landscape Design (2014) (1)
- Review: The Tory View of Landscape by Nigel Everett; Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by Tom Williamson (1997) (0)
- Editorial (2003) (0)
- Preface (2008) (0)
- 8. Art and Nature (1996) (0)
- A Note on Adaptation in Gardens (2012) (0)
- What Is It about Gardens that You Want to Conserve (2014) (0)
- Architecture, design, gardens, pageants, picture & drawing [microform] (1989) (0)
- Anglo-Dutch Garden Art: Style and Idea (1996) (0)
- Some Reflections on the Idea of Horace’s Farm (2017) (0)
- Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens (2013) (0)
- Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace’s Villa (2017) (0)
- A Natural History of English Gardening by Mark Laird (review) (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- A Tribute to Roy Wolper, Editor Extraordinaire (2017) (0)
- Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry Into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (2012) (0)
- Some recent texts and pictures: A review essay (1985) (0)
- Editorial: “Of Many Things” (2016) (0)
- Opportunity and plausibility in landscape meanings (2021) (0)
- The landcape architecture of Hal Moggridge (2018) (0)
- 2. Classical Ground And Classical Gardens (1996) (0)
- Writing the English Garden: Horace Walpole and the Historiography of Landscape Architecture (1993) (0)
- Ekphrasis. Déjà Vu All over again (2011) (0)
- Book reviews (2008) (0)
- 1. The Garden on the Grand Tour (1996) (0)
- About Lancelot Brown (2017) (0)
- Reviews (2002) (0)
- To the finish - The papers of Frederick Law Olmstead: the last great projects, 1890-1895 (volume 9), edited by David Schuyler, Gregory Kaliss and Jeffrey Schlossberg (2015) (0)
- A cultural history of gardens in the Modern Age (2013) (0)
- Review: The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard Etlin (1985) (0)
- Some Different ‘Manieres De Montrer Les Jardins’ – A Review Essay (1988) (0)
- 10. ‘The Way Of Italian Gardens’ (1996) (0)
- 5. Garden and theatre (1996) (0)
- 9. ‘My Patterne for a Countrey Seat’ (1996) (0)
- Gardens on paper: Prints and drawings 1200-1900 and London's pride: The glorious history of the capital's gardens and the nursery garden (1991) (0)
- Review: Heavenly Caves. Reflections on the Garden Grotto by Naomi Miller (1984) (0)
- Review: The Garden of Eden. The Botanic Garden and the Recreation of Paradise by John Prest (1982) (0)
- 11. ‘Palladian’ Gardening (1996) (0)
- Editorial (2010) (0)
- Review: Looking at Architecture with Ruskin by John Unrau; Ruskin and Venice by Robert Hewison; John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye by Robert Hewison (1980) (0)
- Book Review (2003) (0)
- On the formatio and conduct of garden history / John Dixon Hunt. (2009) (0)
- Juliette Ferdinand (Editor). From Art to Science: Experiencing Nature in the European Garden, 1500–1700. (Miscellanea, 4.) 127 pp., illus., index. Merlengo: ZeL Edizioni, 2016. €20 (paper). (2016) (0)
- 6. Cabinets of curiosity (1996) (0)
- 3. Villa and Vigna (1996) (0)
- Ekphrasis of gardens (1994) (0)
- Ruskin’s Change Over Time (2016) (0)
- Amy L. Tigner.Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xii + 271 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–3674–4. (2012) (0)
- Review: Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Robertson (1979) (0)
- ON THE FORMATION AND CONDUCT OF GARDEN HISTORY (2009) (0)
- A visual treasure trove - Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and views of public parks. The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, supplementary series, volume 2, ed. by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier and Irene Mills (2015) (0)
- 4. Ovid in the garden (1996) (0)
- 9. French Impressionist Gardens and the Ecological Picturesque (2018) (0)
- Catalogue of ESA publications in 1991 and 1992. (1993) (0)
- Landscape and lexicon - What is landscape? by John R. Stilgoe (2016) (0)
- Democracy in Canada (2010) (0)
- Manipulating the physical: water's body and soul (2011) (0)
- On the Nature of Things (2000) (0)
- “As is the Gardner, so is the Garden”: the Representation of Self in Landscape Architecture (2000) (0)
- John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture, Anuradha Chattergee BOOK REVIEW (2019) (0)
- Review: The Casino of Pius IV by Graham Smith (1979) (0)
- Review: Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill; Mrs. Delany & Her Circle (2010) (0)
- Disclosure and Unveiling of Nature in European and Early American Gardens (2021) (0)
- William Burges and the High Victorian Dream@@@Restoration and Anti-Restoration: A Study in English Restoration Philosophy (1982) (0)
- Landscape History (2015) (0)
- Afterword (2005) (0)
- Goodbye, Tradition--Hello, Innovation!. (1973) (0)
- Introduction (2005) (0)
- Sense and Sensibility in the Landscape Designs of Humphrey Repton (1978) (0)
- Editorial preface (2003) (0)
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