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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age By John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age by John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age by John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first. New materials and responses to different social conditions, along with new attitudes to how gardens are perceived and interpreted and above all the relationship of built work to the larger landscape of territory and society - all have challenged long-held practices of garden-making, even while those same traditions continue to be at the center of both designers and users. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age 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.

About John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

John Dixon Hunt is Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and Editor of the journal, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. He is the author of many works including The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology and Perception, Nature Over Again: The Garde Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Afterlife of Gardens.

Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age, edited by John Dixon Hunt Introduction Design: On the (Continuing) Uses of the Arbitrary, Anita Berrizbeitia, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Types of Garden, Peter Jacobs, University of Montreal, Canada Plantings, Dennis McGlade, independent scholar and Laurie Olin, University of Pennsylvania, USA Use and Reception, Udo Weilacher, Technical University of Munich, Germany Meaning, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania, USA Verbal Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA Visual Representations, Michael Jakob, Grenoble University, France Gardens and the Larger Landscape, David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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NLS9781350009943
9781350009943
1350009946
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age by John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
John Dixon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
The Cultural Histories Series
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Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-09-22
272
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