By Fillipo Pizzoni
GARDEN DESIGN PLANTS FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY ART GARDENING GUIDE BOOK
Product description
Presents a history of gardens, from medieval times through the
twentieth century, and illustrates the importance of gardens in history
and culture.
Century by century, The Garden: A History in Landscape and Art
offers a history of the gardens of the western world in a larger
context than in most such historical treatments.
Gardens as art, as
cultural achievement, as man's relationship with nature--all are
considered here in gardens from Germany to Mexico, from Italian grottoes
to modern sculpture gardens.
Ancient Moorish gardens of perfect
symmetry, drippy stone carvings of the Medicis, and the simplicity of
repeated rectangles in a 20th-century Scottish garden astonish with the
sheer range of possibilities of landscape design. The
author, an Italian landscape architect who studied in London and
specializes in historic restoration, has a bent toward classicism, and
inexplicably has ignored Asian gardens altogether.
One might ask what
gardens of such size and scope can teach gardeners of today, whose home
gardens are on such a different scale than these grand gardens?
First, the book is a feast of color photographs and drawings, a treat
for the garden enthusiast to study just for the visuals.
Most of all
you'll find here, albeit with a rococo twist or Baroque ornamentation,
all the familiar elements of garden-making today; fountains, pots,
hedging, pathways, trees, shrubs, bridges, and flowers.
The patterning
of these familiar elements, how they've been used in spacing and
enclosure, to create shelter or vista across the centuries can help to
shape our eyes and aesthetics no matter what the nature of our own
garden plots.Product details
- Publisher
:
Rizzoli; First Edition (October 8, 1999)
- Language
:
English
- Hardcover
:
263 pages
- ISBN-10
:
0847822184
- ISBN-13
:
978-0847822188
- Item Weight
:
3.5 pounds
- Dimensions
:
10 x 1.25 x 11.75 inches
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