Main entry:

Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency (Symposium) (2006 : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery),

Title & Author:

Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency : a symposium cosponsored by The Huntington and Dumbarton Oaks / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2008]
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Distributed by Harvard University Press
©2008

Description:

259 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, held at The Huntington Library, May 19-20, 2006"--Page opposite title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Methods and perspectives for the study of gardens and their reception / Michael Conan -- Performative roles. The traces of the traces : reflections of the garden in the Persian mystical imagination / Maria Eva Subtelny. Body and imagination in urban gardens of Song and Yuan / Stephen West. Sons' memorial gardens and the Israeli cultural imagination / Tal Alon Mozes -- Cultural constructions. Gardens--real and imagined--in the social ecology of early modern Ottoman culture / Walter Andrews. Landscapes of ruin and the imagination in the antiquarian gardens of Renaissance Rome / Kathleen Christian. Perception and representation of famous sites in Japanese culture : the significance of Meisho in landscape and garden imagination / Sylvie Brosseau -- Dialectics of fiction and life. The country estate and Russian literary imagination (1761-1917) / Ekaterina Dmitrieva. Mirrors and windows : fictional imagination in later Chinese garden culture / Richard Strassberg -- Individual processes. "Mt. Sumeru in a mustard seed" : imagery and polemics in Wang Shizhen's garden essays / Yinong Xu. Dramatizing garden imagination in Baroque Spain / Maryrica Ortiz Lottman.

Summary:

"The ways of imagination in gardens are infinitely varied. They range from mirroring the true reality of God in Sufi Persia, to the enjoyment of fictitious identities in Rome, and sharing a sense of grief and national pride in Israel. This book explores how gardens could be imagined, and also how they could be used in ways that trigger imagination by very different cultures from Japan. China, Russia, the Ottoman Empire. Italy and Israel. This multi-cultural approach reveals surprising features of the process of imagining a garden: the various aspects of the world that gardens may mirror, the role of cultural changes, and the unsuspected links between garden materiality, practices and imagination. More surprisingly it reveals how garden imagination may be fraught with ambiguities that give a sense of freedom to garden users and yet entrap their thoughts within frames specific to each culture. It demonstrates the interlacing of garden reception and creation. And the various chapters offer a whole range of fascinating exchanges between real and fictitious gardens in poems, novels and dramas"--Front cover flap.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780884023357 (paperback)
0884023354 (paperback)

Subject:

Gardens Symbolic aspects Congresses.
Gardens History Congresses.
Gardens in literature Congresses.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Congrès.
Jardins dans la littérature Congrès.
gardens.
design.
cultural values.
history.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens Symbolic aspects.
Trädgårdar.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, sponsoring body, host institution.
Dumbarton Oaks, sponsoring body.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 30.

Gardens and imagination : cultural history and agency

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259318
Call No.: BIB 190243
Status: Available