Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (27th : 2003 : Dumbarton Oaks),

Title & Author:

Performance and appropriation : profane rituals in gardens and landscapes / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2007]
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Distributed by Harvard University Press
©2007

Description:

227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVII, held at Dumbarton Oaks May 2-3, 2003"--Page opposite title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The significance of bodily engagement with nature / Michel Conan -- Garden and landscape performances : contributions to cultural changes. Taking fresh air : walking in Holland in the early modern period, 1650-1800 / Erik A. de Jong. Royal gardens, fashionable promenades, and public opinion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris / Michel Conan. Stages of knowledge, settings for brotherhood : gardens and freemasonry in Tuscany during the first half of the nineteenth century / Alessandro Tosi. Meaning and change in the walled kitchen gardens of nineteenth-century Britain / Susan Warren Lanman. Tokyo's modern parks : spaces and practices / Sylvie Brosseau -- Achieving a social construction of the self. Silent performances in Guadeloupean dooryard gardens : the Creolization of the self and the environment / Catherine Benoit. Performing hybridity : wedding rituals at Japanese-style gardens in Southern California / Kendall H. Brown -- Struggling for political changes. Academy landscapes and the ritualization of cultural memory in China under the Mongols / Linda Walton. British naumachias : the performance of triumph and memorial / Patrick Eyres. Rituals of transgression in public parks in Britain, 1846 to the present / David Lambert.

Summary:

"Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the U.S. and the Caribbean have made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates the important methods and striking results of garden reception studies. It shows how incremental cultural changes are nearly invisible to their actors. Part One explores how cultural changes occur and devotes several chapters to public landscapes in the Netherlands, seventeenth-century Parisian gardens, Freemason gardens in Tuscany, nineteenth-century Scottish kitchen gardens, and the public parks of Edo and modern Tokyo. Part Two provides strking examples of the construction of self in vernacular gardens in Guadeloupe and American Japanese-style gardens in California. Part Three analyzes struggles for political change in gardens of Yuan China and modern Britain"--Front cover flap.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0884023133
9780884023135

Subject:

Gardens Symbolic aspects Congresses.
Gardens Psychological aspects Congresses.
Landscape architecture Congresses.
Landscape assessment Congresses.
Rites and ceremonies Congresses.
Public spaces Psychological aspects Congresses.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Congrès.
Jardins Aspect psychologique Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Congrès.
Paysages Évaluation Congrès.
Rites et cérémonies Congrès.
Espaces publics Aspect psychologique Congrès.
Gardens Psychological aspects
Gardens Symbolic aspects
Landscape architecture
Landscape assessment
Public spaces Psychological aspects
Rites and ceremonies
Garten Nutzung Kultur Geschichte Kongress Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC, 2003)

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 27.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252158
Call No.: SB470.7 .D86 2003
Status: Available