A world of gardens /
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| Author / Creator: | Hunt, John Dixon. |
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| Imprint: | London : Reaktion Books, 2012. |
| Description: | 368 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8921689 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the garden world and the world of gardens
- Sacred landscapes from Delphi to Yosemite
- Hunting parks to amusement parks
- Ancient Roman gardens and their types
- Islamic and Mughal gardens
- Western medieval gardens : from cloister to suburban backyard
- The Renaissance recovery of antique garden forms and usages
- The Paragone of art and nature in the Renaissance and later
- The botanical garden, the arboretum and the cabinet of curiosities
- Garden as theatre
- The garden of 'betweenity' : between André Le Nôtre and William Kent
- Leaping the ha-ha; or, how the larger landscape invaded the garden
- The role of the 'natural' garden from 'Capability' Brown to Dan Kiley
- The Chinese garden and the collaboration of the arts
- Follies, fabriques and picturesque play
- The invention of the public park
- National parks and international exhibition gardens
- Japanese gardens and their legacy to the West
- Arts and crafts gardens : the artist back in the garden
- The prose and poetry of modern landscape architecture
- The once and future garden.
