Isbn: 9780812236347 - tradition and innovation in french garden art: chapters of a new history (penn studies in landscape architecture) (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 256 pages. In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden age of French garden art, in the late seventeenth centur y, up to the present, when a renaissance of French design theory and practice is clearly visible.By exploring the contributions of such important designe rs as Jean-Marie Morel and Claude-Henri Watelet, these essays argue for a tradit ion that includes, but is by no means exclusively influenced by, Andre Le Notre, long considered the dominant figure in French garden history. Even a glance at the wealth of garden theory and practice during the late eighteenth and early ni neteenth centuries must call into question the conventional neglect of post-Le N otrean work. Each author reads a significant moment of garden art in relation to a whole cluster of cultural concerns, which change with the time and place of t he garden discussed; overall, this has meant invoking town planning, engineering , optics, scientific and philosophic movements, bourgeois ethics, foreign import s, vernacular workings of the land, the rise of professional landscape practice, even the modernist refusal to recognize the garden itself as the prime site of intervention in the landscape.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. The body of French garden literature . is here carried to a new height and breadth in one seminal volume. -Choice&Uumlber den AutorJohn Dixon Hunt is Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. His books incl.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 242 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. viii + 242 158 Illus., Maps.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden age of French garden art, in the late seventeenth century, up to the present, when a renaissance of French design theory and practice is clearly visible. By exploring the contributions of such important designers as Jean-Marie Morel and Claude-Henri Watelet, these essays argue for a tradition that includes, but is by no means exclusively influenced by, Andre Le Notre, long considered the dominant figure in French garden history. Even a glance at the wealth of garden theory and practice during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries must call into question the conventional neglect of post-Le Notrean work. Each author reads a significant moment of garden art in relation to a whole cluster of cultural concerns, which change with the time and place of the garden discussed; overall, this has meant invoking town planning, engineering, optics, scientific and philosophic movements, bourgeois ethics, foreign imports, vernacular workings of the land, the rise of professional landscape practice, even the modernist refusal to recognize the garden itself as the prime site of intervention in the landscape.…