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Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes,...
A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versai...
Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gard...
The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750
"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing I...
The Practice of Garden Theory
Greater Perfections explores the meanings of "garden" and its relationship to other interventions into the natural world. But above all, it offers a n...
The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175
Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visit...
A Life of Domesticity
The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620–1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of inf...
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The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture
Historical Ground is dedicated to understanding how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays historical events and narrative....
The author traces the rise of the picturesque garden in England and throughout Europe, exploring intricate dialogues between practical place-making an...
Modern and Contemporary Gardens
Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, ...
Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form—landscape gardening—and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the ...
English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the ...
Landscape Garden Designer : an Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs
Studie over het werk van de Britse tuinarchitect William Kent (1685-1748)....
Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin
This catalogue celebrates the recently installed collection of twentieth-century sculpture donated to the J. Paul Getty Trust by the Fran and Ray Star...
A Life of John Ruskin
A Casebook
This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem -- both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version -- together ...
His Life and Writings
Andrew Marvell's reputation, for many, rests on a few brilliant lyrics, notably his famous lines "To his coy mistress". Lovely and timeless as these l...
A Cultural History of Gardens presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of ga...
The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay
"Though Ian Hamilton Finlay's (1925 2006) work Little Sparta is, according to Sir Roy Strong, 'the most important garden made in Britain since 1945', ...
Place, Typology, and Perception
In the development of the "landscape idea", no city played such an important role as did Venice. From about one hundred city gardens, squares, and cou...
Two Thousand Years of Visual/textual Interaction
A highly illustrated survey of the use of words (or language) in art. Art, Word and Image asks what it means when a painting is 'invaded' by language ...
Deception, Craft and Reason at Stowe
At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland off er a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. Unlike its French floricultural precur...