What gardens mean / Stephanie Ross.

Main entry:

Ross, Stephanie.

Title & Author:

What gardens mean / Stephanie Ross.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Description:

xiv, 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
1. Garden and art, gardens as art -- 2. Some eighteenth-century background -- 3. The sister arts I -- 4. The sister arts II -- 5. The picturesque -- 6. The beholder's share -- 7. Gardens and the death of art.

Summary:

What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison's Spectator essays on the pleasures of imagination, the book's opening chapter surveys more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art of gardening is now a dead one.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226728226 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226728223 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens, English History 18th century.
Gardens, English Philosophy.
Gardens Philosophy.
Art Philosophy.
Jardins anglais Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins anglais Philosophie.
Jardins Philosophie.
Art Philosophie.
Gardens, English
Garten
Gartenkunst
Geschichte
Philosophie
Ästhetik
Tuinen.
Kunstkritiek.
Architecture des jardins Angleterre (GB)
Jardins Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB)
Jardins Histoire.
Jardins Dans l'art.
Großbritannien
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197064
Call No.: ID SB457.6.R67; ID:98-B285
Status: Available

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