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Foundation for Landscape Studies
Overview
ARTstor is collaborating with the Foundation for Landscape Studies to share approximately 5,000 contemporary photographic images from around the world in the Digital Library. These images provide an overview of landscape studies, encompassing all cultural landscapes, including gardens, parks, cities, suburbs, rural areas, and the humanized wilderness. A subset of the collection consists of engravings from rare books dating from the sixteenth through early twentieth century.
The Foundation for Landscape Studies is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to foster an active understanding of the importance of place in human life. To this end, the foundation initiates collaborative projects with other organizations, institutions, and individuals that promote and advance landscape history and historic landscape design, theory, and practice.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation, is a noted landscape historian, park preservationist, and writer. From 1979 until 1996, she served as the first Central Park Administrator, a position created by Mayor Edward I. Koch. She was instrumental in the founding of the Central Park Conservancy, a public-private partnership created in 1980 to bring citizen support to the restoration and management of the park. In 2002 she created the Garden History and Landscape Studies curriculum at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. Her publications include: The Forests and Wetlands of New York City (1971), Frederick Law Olmsted's New York (1972), Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan (1987), and Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (2001).
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 5,015 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 100% |
| Search terms | elizabethbarlowrogers |
| Collection URL | http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/landscapestudies |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: April 28, 2010