Download Final Study Guide - Landscape Architecture | LA 1203 and more Study notes Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! LA 1203 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE PART 1: READING NOTES AUTHORS AND WRITINGS Marks of Human Passage- Wallace Stegner Should Cars Be Allowed In Yosemite? - James Bryce A Second World- Bayard Taylor The Hawaiian Volcanoes- Mark Twain A Footloose in Democracy- Bernard De Voto Western Expansion across Wide Missouri- De Voto Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens Factories in Lowell Massachusetts- by Charles Dickens Nature- by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ktaadn" in the Maine Woods- Henry David Thoreau AUTHOR INFORMATION Wallace Stegner: Joined in on a fight for the Damn of Echo Park Friends with DeVoto according to Harmon Wrote biography about DeVoto and Powell The Marks of Human Passage is about Powell going down the Colorado River James Bryce: Member of Parliament Bayard Taylor: Critics only gave Taylor credit for filling expectations of his mid 19th century readers, he only pleased the readers with Second World Valley of Humiliation, Great Relief, Gothic Gallery Found in mammoth cave, Kentucky Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): Compared Vesuvius to a Hawaiian volcano called Kilauea He thought Vesuvius was insignificant (“children’s volcano” or “soup kettle”) He went barefooted at night time De Voto: Held “easy chair” with Harper’s Magazine and wrote about Echo Park Involved with Eco Park in the 1950’s, 40 years after Hetch Hetchy Picked up by Reader’s Digest Story of Echo Park Big battle, De Voto and Stegner involved, trying to build another Dam in Echo Canyon, but this time the environment won. Difference between Hetch Hetchy and Echo Finally environmental community became a political entity Won Pulitzer Prize in 1947 with Western Expansion across Wide Missouri Quote- “Aesthetics, one may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one was felt it is left untouched” Charles Dickens: In Factories in Lowell Massachusetts, he was impressed with women factory workers and their poetry In Christmas Carol, he criticized society Asked readers to compare Haunts of Desperate Misery to Lowell Massachusetts Ralph Waldo Emerson- Nature Henry David Thoreau Quote- “According to Jackson, accurately measured altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 ft or a little more than a mile above level of the sea…highest point in the state of Maine” OTHER STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW Dinosaur National Monument associated with all the rivers (Not Great Salt Lake) Earl Douglas- found dinosaurs for the Carnegie Museum. Made the area with the fossils a national park Tried to protect his diggings from the souvenir hunters According to Harmon, Echo Park marked coming of age of the conservation movement (Not ecology) PART 2: LECTURE NOTES PAINTINGS Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Duran 1894 The Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt Course of Empire by Thomas Cole- nature to empire then back to nature 1. The Savage State 2. The Pastoral (Acadian) State 3.Consummation of Empire Two people in the painting are: Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant Sold it at Sanitation Commission Auction in NYC for $25,000 which helped fund the commission
