Overview
Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic.
Full Product Details
Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.545kg
ISBN: 9780813939131
ISBN 10: 0813939135
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 February 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Despite the various sources of inspiration or influence on the American cultural landscape, what has been fashioned here is no longer 'Italian,' 'English,' 'German,' or 'Japanese,' or any of the many precedents for what has transpired here. These essays, in their different voices and topics, elucidate this process, representing a rich gathering of recent thought on this phenomenon. For those who read these essays in their entirety, the American landscape will not be the same, but a livelier, more contentious, and layered domain.-Laurie Olin, The Olin Studio, author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes.
Despite the various sources of inspiration or influence on the American cultural landscape, what has been fashioned here is no longer `Italian,' `English,' `German,' or `Japanese,' or any of the many precedents for what has transpired here. These essays, in their different voices and topics, elucidate this process, representing a rich gathering of recent thought on this phenomenon. For those who read these essays in their entirety, the American landscape will not be the same, but a livelier, more contentious, and layered domain.-Laurie Olin, The Olin Studio, author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes.
Despite the various sources of inspiration or influence on the American cultural landscape, what has been fashioned here is no longer 'Italian, ' 'English, ' 'German, ' or 'Japanese, ' or any of the many precedents for what has transpired here. These essays, in their different voices and topics, elucidate this process, representing a rich gathering of recent thought on this phenomenon. For those who read these essays in their entirety, the American landscape will not be the same, but a livelier, more contentious, and layered domain.--Laurie Olin, The Olin Studio, author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes
Author Information
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, is the author of Medici Gardens: From Making to Design.
