Title & Author:

Tradition and innovation in French garden art : chapters of a new history / edited by John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan ; with the assistance of Claire Goldstein.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.

Description:

viii, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cultivation of a king, or the flower gardens of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde -- Engineering and French formal gardens in the reign of Louis XIV / Chandra Mukerji -- Jules Hardouin Mansart and André Le Nostre at Dampierre / F. Hamilton Hazlehurst -- Making breathing room : public gardens and city planning in eighteenth-century France / Richard Cleary -- The tree : rural tradition and landscape innovation in the eighteenth century / Yves Luginbühl -- Francesco Bettini and the pedagogy of garden design in late eighteenth-century France / David L. Hays -- The garden of the perfectibilists : Méréville and the Désert de Retz / Michel Baridon -- Jean-Marie Morel and the invention of landscape architecture / Joseph Disponzio -- The coming of age of the bourgeois garden / Michel Conan -- Freedom from the garden : Gabriel Guévrékian and a new territory of experience / George Dodds -- Reinventing the Parisian park / John Dixon Hunt -- Stories for tomorrow / Bernard Lassus.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.

ISBN:

0812236343 (alk. paper)
9780812236347 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens, French History 17th century Congresses.
Gardens, French History 18th century Congresses.
Gardens France History 17th century Congresses.
Gardens France History 18th century Congresses.
Landscape architecture Netherlands History 17th century Congresses.
Landscape architecture Netherlands History 18th century Congresses.
Gardens, French History 17th century.
Gardens, French History 18th century.
Gardens France History 17th century.
Gardens France History 18th century.
Landscape architecture Netherlands History 18th century.
Jardins français Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins français Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins France Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins France Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture du paysage Pays-Bas Histoire 17e siècle.
Architecture du paysage Pays-Bas Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins français Histoire 17e siècle Congrès.
Jardins français Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
Jardins France Histoire 17e siècle Congrès.
Jardins France Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Pays-Bas Histoire 17e siècle Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Pays-Bas Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens
Gardens, French
Landscape architecture
Gartenkunst
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Landscape architecture France History 17th century Congresses.
Landscape architecture France History 18th century Congresses.
France
Netherlands
Frankreich

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Hunt, John Dixon.
Conan, Michel.
Goldstein, Claire.
Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226524
Call No.: SB457.65 .T725 2002
Status: Available