Main entry:

Rose, James C. (James Clarence), 1913-1991, author.

Title & Author:

Modern American gardens / designed by James Rose ; text by Marc Snow ; [photos by William Barksdale, and others].

Publication:

New York : Reinhold, [1967]

Description:

224 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
A garden becomes: Sculpture in sculpture -- Sculpture in architecture -- Sculpture in landscape -- Stuff of gardens: Plants -- Earth -- Rock -- Water -- Things that happen to people -- Things that are -- Things that are made -- Letting it happen -- "Form" appears -- Enigmas: Pattern? -- Textures? -- Form? -- Space? -- Interplay -- Enigmas resolved: ... by interplay -- ... by fluidity -- ... by inseparability -- ... by fusion of: architecture into landscape -- landscape into architecture -- levels into space -- levels -- levels into water -- becoming poised -- people entering -- ... by separateness into privacy -- Viewer in the garden -- Ten years later -- Personalities -- Dear American magazines: The symptoms: The suburban merry-go-round -- The nothing site -- The "treatment" is no cure: Woods -- Water -- Rock -- The individual -- Individuality in the community -- Unless ...

Summary:

Modern American Gardens is probably the first book to present the contemporary garden as an art form in the context of its own society and culture. It traces the landscape movement in the Western world as part of the revolution in the arts since the turn of the century and illustrates the results of that movement in the work of one of its prime exponents on the American scene.

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Gardens United States.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins États-Unis.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Gardens
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
United States

Added entries:

Snow, Marc, author.
Barksdale, William, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104971
Call No.: ID:85-B16551
Status: Available