Janet Mendelsohn has made documentaries for the
PBS science series NOVA as well the films Figure in a Landscape:
Conversations with J. B. Jackson (with Claire Marino) and J. B.
Jackson and the American Landscape.
Chris Wilson is the J. B. Jackson Professor of
Cultural Landscape Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA. He
is coeditor of Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after
J. B. Jackson and the lead author and editor of The Plazas of New
Mexico.
Drawn to Landscape is a beautifully conceived and executed
volume....The heart of the book holds three full-color portfolios:
drawings, covers of Landscape magazine, and photographs from
Jackson's enormous archive of teaching slides....Several of the
essays were written by people who had long acquaintance with
Jackson, and their intimacy with him enlarges and enriches our
understanding of the contradictions and the accomplishments of the
work as well as the person.-- "Landscape Architecture Magazine"
Drawn to Landscape is a superb tribute to a man who has profoundly
affected thinking in a range of disciplines. Brinck Jackson's
stunning and powerful sketches and his broad scope of documentation
with color slides are vividly portrayed as a telling embodiment of
an unusually acute and innovative mind. These images and those he
produced for Landscape magazine are given a revealing context by a
group of distinguished scholars. The contents are engrossing for
those of us fortunate enough to have known Jackson and for anyone
with a serious interest in the shaping of the environment. Drawn to
Landscape is essential reading.--Richard Longstreth, Professor of
American Studies, George Washington University, author of Road
Trip: Roadside America, from Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam
Restaurant and Looking beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture,
Landscape, and Urbanism
At last a tribute worthy of the man--J. B. Jackson, landscape
scholar, historian, and moralist, whose virtue as an author and
human being is hard tyo capture. That Drawn to the Landscape so
brilliantly succeeds owes much to its perceptive authors, and,
above all, to the dedication of the editors and publisher.--Yi-Fu
tuan, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and British Academy of
Arts and Sciences, author of The Last launch: Messages in the
Bottle and Humanist Geography: An Individual's Search for
Meaning
J. B. Jackson took a good word--landscape--and made it better. In
many ways, he returned landscape to its Dutch roots: more than a
view, it is a place shaped through the interaction of nature and
culture. And, as Drawn to Landscape illustrates, Jackson read and
interpreted landscapes with a special set of eyes. A master
essayist, Jackson also possessed a great acumen in drawing,
painting, and photographing the landscapes of everyday life, which
this book's many illustrations display. The raw beauty of Jackson's
drawings and watercolors and the clarity of his photographs
complement and enhance his prescient prose. Drawn to Landscape is a
wonderful book that makes a really significant contribution,
presenting firsthand insights into Jackson's multifaceted,
revelatory work.--Frederick R. Steiner, Dean of the School of
Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, author of Human Ecology:
Following Nature's Lead and The Living Landscape: An Ecological
Approach to Landscape Planning
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