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Author:   Mara Miller
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780791413784

ISBN 10:   0791413780
Pages:   233
Publication Date:   01 July 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780791413777
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I: What Is a Garden? 1. Definitions, Examples, and Paradigms 2. The General Unifying Principles Underlying the Construction and Appreciation of Gardens 3. Additional Aspects of Spatiality Part II: The Garden as a Work of Art 4. Gardens and Current Theories of Art 5. Preference for Distance and Disinterest 6. Environmental Aesthetics and the Effects of Art 7. The Signifying Garden: Gardens as Art Part III: The Garden as Great Art 8. Great Art: Significant Human Content: Theoretical Issues 9. Ideas in Art and Language 10. The Signifying Garden: Gardens and Language 11. Gardens as Great Art: The Presentation of Artistic Ideas 12. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index to Gardens Name Index Subject Index

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This is an excellent piece of work, well-organized, and convincingly argued. Miller is extremely well informed both about gardens and about aesthetics (an unusual combination). The book integrates fascinating examples into a thorough, closely reasoned discussion of the theoretical issues that gardens raise. - Arnold Berleant, Long Island University Miller's is an extremely broad and competent treatment of gardens, East and West. Her grasp of Japanese culture is rare for any Western treatment, philosophical or otherwise, of gardens. - Edmund Leites, Queens College of the City University of New York

Author Information

Mara Miller is a philosopher and art historian who writes on gardens and environmental aesthetics, Japanese and East Asian aesthetics and art history, and women and gender issues. She has lectured in China, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand, and her work has been published in Polish, Chinese, and Finnish. Also an artist, she has exhibited in Philadelphia and New York City, and her work is in collections throughout the United States.

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