A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age

by John Dixon Hunt (Editor)

Overview

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 centre 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857850348
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2015
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series , #7
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

John Dixon Hunt is Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and Editor of the jourbanal, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. He is the author of many works including The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology and Perception, Nature Over Again: The Garde Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Afterlife of Gardens.

Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age, edited by John Dixon Hunt

Introduction

Design: On the (Continuing) Uses of the Arbitrary, Anita Berrizbeitia, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA

Types of Garden, Peter Jacobs, University of Montreal, Canada

Plantings, Dennis McGlade, independent scholar and Laurie Olin, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Use and Reception, Udo Weilacher, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Meaning, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Verbal Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA

Visual Representations, Michael Jakob, Grenoble University, France

Gardens and the Larger Landscape, David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Editorial Reviews

An exciting and unusual approach to a perhaps undervalued aspect of history . . . [that] usefully fills a niche area of research and study. [A Cultural History of Gardens] provides an important and fascinating insight through thought-provoking essays and will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the garden . . . [and] the development of human society in general.” —Louise Ellis-Barrett, St. John's School, Leatherhead, UK, Reference Reviews, vol. 28

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