Experiencing the garden in the eighteenth century / Martin Calder (Ed.).

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Experiencing the garden in the eighteenth century / Martin Calder (Ed.).

Publication:

Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes contribution by Katherine Myers, a New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Visual fields : theories of perception and the landscape garden / Katherine Myers -- Experience as imagined : writing the eighteenth-century landscape garden / Katja Grillner -- Understanding nature and the aesthetics of the landscape garden / Michel Baridon -- Figuring the commonplace at Ermenonville / David L. Hays -- Promenade in Ermenonville / Martin Calder -- Death in a French garden : the Laborde and Cook monuments at Méréville and the landscape of loss / David Maskill -- Nature intended : the garden of a roi bienfaisant / Renata Tyszczuk -- Egypt in the eighteenth-century garden : decline or revival of the initiatory journey? / Jean-Marcel Humbert -- Pierre-Jacques Fougeroux : a Frenchman's commentary on English gardens of the 1720s / David Jacques and Tim Rock.

Summary:

This volume brings together papers presented at a conference entitled 'Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century', held at the University of London in 2004. The papers focused on the theme of experience, an especially inportant aspect of eighteenth-century garden design.

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ISBN:

0820469858 (pbk. ; US)
9780820469850 (pbk. ; US)
3039102915 (pbk.)
9783039102914 (pbk.)

Subject:

Europa
Landscape architecture Europe History 18th century Congresses.
Architecture du paysage Europe Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
Landscape architecture.
Landschaftsgarten
Landschaftsgarten Europa Geschichte 1700-1800 Kongress London <2004>
Europe.
Europa Landschaftsgarten Geschichte 1700-1800 Kongress London <2004>

Form/genre:

Kongress London 2004.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Calder, Martin.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246704
Call No.: BIB 176283
Status: Available

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