Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

433 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXV held at Dumberton Oaks, May 11-12, 2001"--Half title page.
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 / Margherita Azzi Visentini ; Spectacle, ritual, and social relations / Stephen H. West ; Friendship and imagination in French Baroque Gardens before 1661 / Michel Conan ; Polity and politeness at Castle Howard / Lance Neckar.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0884023044
9780884023043

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (25th : 2001 : Washington, D.C.)

Holdings:

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