Main entry:

"Social Reception of Baroque Gardens" (Symposium) (2001 : Dumbarton Oaks),

Title & Author:

Baroque garden cultures : emulation, sublimation, subversion / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2005]
©2005

Description:

433 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XXV

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXV held at Dumberton Oaks, May 11-12, 2001"--Half-title page.
"A symposium on the "Social Reception of Baroque Gardens" was organized in May 2001 at Dumbarton Oaks"--Page 3.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the new horizons of Baroque garden cultures / Michel Conan -- European networks, from education to sublimation. Of plants and gardeners, prints and books / Erik A. de Jong ; Gardens of knowledge and the République des gens de sciences / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi -- Emulating the politics of garden display. Pastoral landscape and social politics in Baroque Rome / Tracy L. Ehrlich ; The aesthetic and social reception and development of the Baroque garden in Sweden / Magnus Olausson ; Saxon Baroque gardens (1694-1733) / Roland Puppe -- Sublimation and subversion of Baroque garden politics. Islands of delight : shifting perceptions of the Borromean Islands / Margherita Azzi Visentini ; Spectacle, ritual, and social relations : the son of heaven, citizens, and created space in imperial gardens in the Northern Song / Stephen H. West ; Friendship and imagination in French Baroque gardens before 1661 / Michel Conan ; Polity and politeness at Castle Howard : awed and angry visitors in a Baroque landscape architecture / Lance Neckar.

Summary:

Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a means to understand garden culture in general and exploring baroque gardens as a feature of baroque cultures in particular. In so doing, it negotiates a turning point in garden history. Jose Antonio Maravall determined that baroque culture grew out of the social and economic crises of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, precipitating the establishment of the state and its concomitant engines of repression and propaganda. This absolutist state deployed the arts as a political means to dazzle society into submission to the monarch. The varying degrees of state control allowed for diverse cultural and political reception of the arts to emerge and for the possibility of anti-baroque arts to develop alongside baroque ones. This possibility invites us to understand the conditions of artistic production as a preamble to aesthetic criticism and to position garden history within the framework of social history. Such an approach explores and explains the vexing differences in baroque art and landscape architecture in different countries and at different times from the end of the sixteenth century to the present. Although primarily associated with Europe, baroque culture developed elsewhere as well. Gardens played a prominent role in the development of the European baroque, with variations due to the different political systems and social structures in place between 1580 and 1770. These countries nevertheless entertained a dense network of cultural relationships and the reception of baroque gardens can thus be studied in an international context. This study of gardens ranging from western and northern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to as far away as twelfth-century China shows how the study of audience reception can renew our understanding of the cultural role of gardens. Gardens have a life of their own and this book's various chapters ponder how they might have been formative of culture in a way that completely escaped the intentions of their creators and designers. This volume also studies the changing reception of gardens long after they were designed, including the reception of historical gardens by contemporary tourists and art critics. Baroque Garden Cultures demonstrates that while baroque garden politics encouraged emulation and led to various forms of sublimation of its attempts at cultural control, it could not ultimately escape clever means of subversion.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0884023044
9780884023043

Subject:

Gardens, Baroque Congresses.
Jardins baroques Congrès.
Gardens, Baroque

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 25.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244924
Call No.: BIB 174578
Status: Available