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What Gardens Mean
Stephanie Ross
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Description for What Gardens Mean
Paperback. Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy, history of art, culture and garden examples to explore the magical lure of gardens. The text plays special attention to the landscape gardens of 18th-century England. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 colour plates, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: WMB; WMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 700.
Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them?
In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting.
What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary ... Read more
Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them?
In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting.
What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226728070
SKU
V9780226728070
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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