Title & Author:

Nature and ideology : natural garden design in the twentieth century / edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©1997.

Description:

278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XVIII"--Added title page.
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XVIII"--Added t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An evolutionary perspective on strengths, fallacies, and confusions in the concept of native plants / Stephen Jay Gould -- Nature and ideology in Western descriptions of the Chinese garden / Craig Clunas -- Rousseau, Goethe, Humboldt: their influence on later advocates of the nature garden -- Emerson's aesthetic and natural design: a theoretical foundation for the work of Horace William Shaler Cleveland / Daniel Joseph Nadenicek -- Re-presenting nature: ideology, art, and science in William Robinson's "Wild Garden" / Anne L. Helmreich -- Warren H. Manning: Pragmatist in the wild garden / Robin Karson -- Wild gardening and the popular American Magazine, 1890-1918 / Virginai Tuttle Clayton -- Jacobus P. Thijsse's influence on Dutch landscape architecture / Jan Woudstra -- The nationalization of nature and the naturalization of the German nation: "Teutonic" trends in early twentieth-century landscape design / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Ideological aspects of nature garden concepts in late twentieth-century Germany / Gert Gröning -- The authority of nature: conflict and confusion in landscape architecture / Anne Whiston Spirn.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Contains: Woudstra, J.,Jacobus P. Thijsse's influence on Dutch landscape architecture. - p. 155-185
This volume explores the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in 20th-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. A possible definition- nature is ideology- suggests that nature can be seen as a systematic scheme of ideas held by particular social, political, and cultural groups and that what we define as nature is a human intellectual construct. Historical and contemporary concepts of natural garden design then provide evidence of different concepts of nature underlying these varied design approaches. The desire to produce a natural garden design has fascinated many professional and lay garden designers, and the various contributions in this volume investigate their use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the immensely rich model that nature offers. The work of early twentieth-century natural garden advocates is discussed in its relevance for contemporary design approaches.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0884022463 (alk. paper)
9780884022466 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Natural gardens Design Congresses.
Jardins naturels Architecture Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Natural gardens Design.
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsgarten
Landschaftsplanung
Aufsatzsammlung
Tuinarchitectuur.
Theorie.
Arquitetura paisagística (congressos)
Jardins.
Architecture du paysage.
Natural gardens.
Landscape architecture
Landscape gardening
tuinen
gardens
wilde planten
wild plants
vegetatie
vegetation
ideologie
ideology
landschapsbouw
landscaping
natuur
nature
Garden History
Tuinhistorie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (18th : 1995)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214840
Call No.: SB439 .N4 1997
Status: Available