Main entry:

Miller, Mara, 1952-

Title & Author:

The Garden as an art / Mara Miller.

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

Description:

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and indexes.
pt. I. What Is a Garden? -- Ch. 1. Definitions, Examples, and Paradigms -- Ch. 2. The General Unifying Principles Underlying the Construction and Appreciation of Gardens -- Ch. 3. Additional Aspects of Spatiality -- pt. II. The Garden as a Work of Art -- Ch. 4. Gardens and Current Theories of Art -- Ch. 5. Preference for Distance and Disinterest -- Ch. 6. Environmental Aesthetics and the Effects of Art -- Ch. 7. The Signifying Garden: Gardens as Art -- pt. III. The Garden as Great Art -- Ch. 8. Great Art: Significant Human Content: Theoretical Issues -- Ch. 9. Ideas in Art and Language -- Ch. 10. The Signifying Garden: Gardens and Language -- Ch. 11. Gardens as Great Art: The Presentation of Artistic Ideas -- Ch. 12. Conclusions.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0791413772 (PB)
9780791413777 (PB)
0791413780 (CH)
9780791413784 (CH)

Subject:

Gardens Philosophy.
Art Philosophy.
Gardens.
Art.
Jardins Philosophie.
Art Philosophie.
Jardins.
Landschaftsgarten
Garten
Gartenkunst
Philosophie
Ästhetik

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art.
Œuvres d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286236
Call No.: BIB 226450
Status: Available