What Gardens Mean,9780226728070

What Gardens Mean

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ISBN13: 9780226728070
ISBN10: 0226728072
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Stephanie Ross explores the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, Ross situates gardening among other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing connections between gardens and the art of painting.

Author Biography

Stephanie Ross is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Gardens and Art, Gardens as Art
1(24)
Garden Variety
1(5)
Definition
6(4)
Art
10(8)
Garden Riddles
18(7)
Some Eighteenth-Century Background
25(96)
The French Formal Garden
25(9)
The Grand Tour
34(6)
Academies and Theory
40(5)
Gardens
45(4)
The Sister Arts I
Gardens and Poetry
49(1)
The Sister Arts
49(2)
Gardens, Poems, and Emblems
51(4)
Pope's Twickenham
55(4)
Stowe
59(4)
Stourhead
63(3)
West Wycombe
66(4)
Intention
70(3)
Multiple Interpretation
73(8)
Style
81(4)
The Sister Arts II
Gardens and Painting
85(1)
Introduction
85(6)
Imitation and Allusion
91(16)
Representation
107(11)
Gardens Again
118(3)
The Picturesque
121(34)
Introduction
121(2)
The Picturesque
123(4)
Price and Knight
127(2)
Sir Uvedale Price
129(7)
Richard Payne Knight
136(5)
Transfer of Technique
141(11)
Conclusion
152(3)
The Beholder's Share
155(34)
Introduction
155(1)
Sense
156(8)
Imagination
164(11)
Understanding
175(14)
Gardens and the Death of Art
189(36)
Introduction
189(1)
The Death of Art
190(3)
The Mimetic Model
193(4)
The Hegelian Model
197(3)
Difficulties with the Hegelian Model
200(1)
Gardens' Fate
201(7)
Earthworks and Environmental Art
208(11)
Tracing a Lineage
219(6)
Notes 225(36)
Bibliography 261(6)
Index 267

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