Overview
As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialization and urbanization, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the last resting places of the dead and cultivated plots for survival. Gardens were therapeutic environments regarded as civilizing, socializing and assimilating institutions, and they were designed and perceived as social landscapes and community playgrounds. Rich with symbolism, gardens were treated as the subject and the setting for literature and painting and were often considered works of art in themselves. In a time of empire, when plants were drawn from across the globe, gardens also reflected territorial conquest and expansion and they fostered national, regional and local identities. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire 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.
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Author: Sonja Dümpelmann (Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781350009936
ISBN 10: 1350009938
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 September 2016
Audience:
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire, Edited by Sonja Dümpleman Introduction Design, Brent Elliott, Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society, UK Types of Gardens, Brent Elliott, Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society, UK Plantings, Mark Laird, Harvard University, USA Verbal Representations, Linda Parshall, Portland State University, USA Visual Representations, Iris Lauterbach, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany Use and Reception, Daniel Nadenicek, University of Georgia, USA Meaning, Heath Schenker, University of California, Davis, USA Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Gert Gröning, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahnm, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
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Sonja Dümpleman is associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of a book on the life and work of Italian landscape architect Maria Teresa Parapagliolo Shephard and of a forthcoming book on the influence of powered aviation on landscape.
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