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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age
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Description
Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first.
New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are perceived and interpreted and above all the relationship of built work to the larger landscape of territory and society - all have challenged long-held practices of garden-making, even while those same traditions continue to be at the center of both designers and users.
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Table of Contents
1. Design: On the (Continuing) Uses of the Arbitrary, Anita Berrizbeitia, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA
2. Types of Garden, Peter Jacobs, University of Montreal, Canada
3. Plantings, Dennis McGlade, independent scholar and Laurie Olin, University of Pennsylvania, USA
4. Use and Reception, Udo Weilacher, Technical University of Munich, Germany
5. Meaning, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania, USA
6. Verbal Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA
7. Visual Representations, Michael Jakob, Grenoble University, France
8. Gardens and the Larger Landscape, David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Product details

Published | 22 Sep 2016 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 272 |
ISBN | 9781350009943 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 43 bw illus |
Dimensions | 244 x 169 mm |
Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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