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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c1999.
Description:234 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4023579
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Other authors / contributors:Conan, Michel.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (21st)
ISBN:088402265X (hc)
0884022692 (pbk.)
Notes:"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXI"--P. preceding t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michel Conan
  • Prelude: Landscape Studies, 1952-1972 / Elisabeth Blair MacDougall
  • The Study of the History of the Italian Garden until the First Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium / David R. Coffin
  • Recent Developments and Perspectives in the Historiography of Italian Gardens / Mirka Benes
  • Approaches (New and Old) to Garden History / John Dixon Hunt
  • History and Historiography in the English Landscape Garden / Michael Leslie
  • Mughal Gardens: The Re-emergence of Comparative Possibilities and the Wavering of Practical Concern / James L. Wescoat, Jr.
  • "Leaping the Property Line": Observations on Recent American Garden History / Kenneth Helphand
  • The Search for "Ecological Goodness" among Garden Historians / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
  • From Vernacular Gardens to a Social Anthropology of Gardening / Michel Conan
  • Longing and Belonging in Chinese Garden History / Stanislaus Fung.