A Cultural History of Gardens

by Leslie, Michael; Hunt, John Dixon

• ISBN13: 9781847882653
• ISBN10: 184788265X
• Format: Display
• Copyright: 2013-07-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces.1. A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity2. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Middle Ages3. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance4. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment5. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire6. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern AgeEach volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:1. Design2. Types of Gardens3. Planting4. Use and Reception5. Visual Representations6. Verbal Representations7. Meaning8. Gardens and the Larger LandscapeThis structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume.Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on gardens through history.

Author Biography

Michael Leslie is Professor of English at Rhodes College. He has written on sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature, interart relations, and designed landscapes of the medieval and Renaissance periods; he has most recently published editions of plays by the seventeenth-century dramatist Richard Brome. 

 

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 author of many works including The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology and Perception, Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Afterlife of Gardens.

Table of Contents

General Introduction 1. Design and types of gardens 2. Use/reception 3. Meaning 4. Representations in writing, including historiography 5. Representation in visual arts, including cinema 6. Planting 7. Relations to larger landscape