Earth perfect? : nature, utopia and the garden / [edited by] Annette Giesecke, Naomi Jacobs.

Title & Author:

Earth perfect? : nature, utopia and the garden / [edited by] Annette Giesecke, Naomi Jacobs.

Publication:

Description:

305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Nature, Utopia, And The Garden / Naomi Jacobs -- 1. Being In Nature -- Gardens And The Way Of Things / David E. Cooper -- On Sacred Ground ; The Sommer Berger Garden -- Paradise Lost? / Lynda H. Schneekloth -- 2. Inscribing The Garden -- The Garden Of Earthly Delights / Pitrick Healy -- The Dance Of Versailles : Nature, Circe, And The Garden / Arie Graafland -- Planting My Cabbages / Steven Brown -- 3. Green/House -- Outside In And Inside Out : Paradise In The Ancient Roman House / Annette Giesecke -- Architecture Without Nature? / Donald Dunham -- Consuming Beauty : The Urban Garden As Ambiguous Utopia / Naomi Jacobs -- 4. The Garden Politic -- Plots Of Paradise : Gardens And The Utopian City / Dennis Hardy -- The Panoptic Garden / David Bell -- Beneath The Radar : Exotics And Natives In Bohemia's Border Gardens / Morna Livingston -- 5. Economies Of The Garden -- Enquiry Into Plants : Nature, Utopia, And The Botanic Garden / Stephen Forbes -- Zootopia : Utopia And Dystopia In The Zoological Garden / Irus Braverman -- Comedies Of Surplus : Representing The Garden In Contemporary American Literature / Jennifer Atkinson -- 6. How Then shall We Garden? -- Bitta-Blue Farm And The Summer Of BP / Susan Willis -- Achieving Ecological Utopia In The Garden / Douglas W. Tallamy -- Let Flowers Speak / Joseph Beuys.

Summary:

Through the lens of Utopian Studies, Earth Perfect? brings together inspiring essays by foremost writers from the fields of architecture, history of art, classics, cultural studies, farming, geography, horticulture, landscape architecture, law, literature, philosophy, urban planning, and the natural sciences.

ISBN:

9781907317750
1907317759

Subject:

Gardens.
Nature.
Utopias.
Jardins.
Utopies.
Natur
Garten
Landschaftsarchitektur
Utopie
Gardens Symbolic aspects.
Gardens, Roman.
Gardens France Versaille.
Gardens Czech Republic Bohemia.
Trädgårdar teori, filosofi.
Utopier.

Form/genre:

Utopian fiction.

Added entries:

Giesecke, Annette.
Jacobs, Naomi, 1953-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280140
Call No.: BIB 216601
Status: Available

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