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The Impossible Quest for the Past: Thoughts on the Restoration of Gardens
Monique Mosser
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Shortly after the last war, Ernest de Ganay, reflecting on the terrible fate of one of the finest classical gardens in France...
Author
Monique Mosser
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Historic gardens
Art--Conservation and restoration
Garden writing
Gardens--Style
Henri and Achille Duchêne and the Reinvention of Le Nôtre
Monique Mosser
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
It is a topos to try to establish to what extent garden aesthetics are a reliable indication of fashion, and further, whether they are a concrete reflection of a particular period’s view of the world: whence the facile but...
Author
Monique Mosser
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Gardens, French
Nationalism in gardens
Garden writing
Landscape architectural drawing
Gardens--Designs and plans
Paradox in the Garden: A Brief Account of
Fabriques
Monique Mosser
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
It was the Frenchman Jean-Marie Morel who, in his Théories desjardins (1776), provided one of the best studies of garden fabriques...
Author
Monique Mosser
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Gardens, French
Ruins in art
Garden structures
Curiosities and wonders in art
Gardens--Designs and plans
Introduction: The Architecture of the Garden and Architecture in the Garden
Monique Mosser
and
Georges Teyssot
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
The idea of the garden as a natural space adapted by man to meet his own aesthetic demands grew from the concept that private land could be used to satisfy many human needs, and from the conviction that the beauty of nature could be improved by the work of man (Giulio Carlo Argan). In other words, the garden always has two roles, and it is as inseparable from its utilitarian function as it is from...
Author
Monique Mosser
and
Georges Teyssot
Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Subjects:
Garden historians
Art--Philosophy
Landscape architecture--History
Gardens--Designs and plans
Gardens in art
The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Monique Mosser
(Editor),
Georges Teyssot
(Editor)
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The Architecture of Western Gardens
presents an international tour of garden design from the Renaissance to the present. As object and as literature, it is an unprecedented resource. The more than seventy essays by scholars from Europe and America all commissioned for this book--and over 650 illustrations raise the standard of garden literature to a new level. The result is an invaluable compendium that will serve as a fundamental starting point for exploring the many expressions of the place where nature and culture, project and diversion, work and pleasure meet.
Organized chronologically, the essays and illustrations make up a mosaic of the garden in the Western world. The humanist garden in Renaissance Italy, the concepts of the "Sublime" and the "Picturesque," mazes, grottoes, and other curiosities, city parks, American land art, and even Disneyland are among the topics treated. Discussions of characteristic aspects of history and theory are followed by analyses of individual gardens as paradigms of their type: the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg, the Parc Monceau in Paris, the Park Guell in Barcelona, Stowe in England, and many more.
The illustrations are a model of how iconography can function as text. They include ground plans meticulously redrawn from original archival material to provide precise information on the scale and nature of many of the projects, as well as a wealth of drawings, reconstructions, paintings, and photographs.
Author
Monique Mosser
(Editor),
Georges Teyssot
(Editor)
Publisher
MIT Press
Print publication date
August 1991 (in print)
Print ISBN
9780262132640
EISBN
9780300238761
Copyright
© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Illustrations
630
Print Status
in print
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