Main entry:

Jakob, Michael, 1959- author.

Title & Author:

The bench in the garden / Michael Jakob ; translation, Miranda MacPhail.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, California ] : Oro Editions, [2017]
©2017

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Original edition ©Einaudi 2014" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
A stroll in Ermenonville -- The panca di via -- From Tuscany to the Île-de-France -- Bomarzo as a theater of benches and gazes -- The Isle of Poplars -- Lenin's bench -- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Ermenonville -- The circuit-walk garden -- A atypical series of benches -- The bench of nursing mothers -- De la composition des payages -- Engraving of the Isle of Poplars in memory -- Tele-vision and desire -- Indian summer -- The cherry-tree bench, the ash-tree bench, the lime-tree bench ... -- Et in Gorki ego -- "... just underneath my bench ..." -- Adventures around a bench -- Benches and landscape architecture.

Summary:

The bench: a functional object that rarely features at the forefront of our minds, even when we are sitting on one in a garden. And yet benches have surprising significance, regarding the specific places where they operate, and in a more general sense. The bench is more than a convenient sitting point. It is the domain where aesthetics, garden history, architecture, spatiality and subjectivity interfere. The bench acts as a powerful visual machine and regulates the reception of surrounding landscapes to its visitors. By transmitting verbal messages (through inscriptions), citing other benches and being part of a complex walk circuit, by providing rest and inviting its users to discover new aspects of the site, the bench is a highly polysemic element of a garden, which orients and disorients the visitor simultaneously.

ISBN:

9781939621795 (paperback)
1939621798 (paperback)

Subject:

Benches.
Garden ornaments and furniture History.
Jardins Meubles et ornements Histoire.
Garden ornaments and furniture.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

MacPhail, Miranda, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296528
Call No.: BIB 242896
Status: Available