Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (27th : 2003)

Title & Author:

Performance and appropriation : profane rituals in gardens and landscapes / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Description:

227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVII, held at Dumbarton Oaks May 2-3, 2003"--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The significance of bodily engagement with nature / Michel Conan -- Garden and landscape performances : contributions to cultural changes. Taking fresh air : walking in Holland in the early modern period, 1650-1800 / Erik A. de Jong ; Royal gardens, fashionable promenades, and public opinion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris / Michel Conan ; Stages of knowledge, settings for brotherhood : gardens and freemasonry in Tuscany during the first half of the nineteenth century / Alessandro Tosi ; Meaning and change in the walled kitchen gardens of nineteenth-century Britain / Susan Warren Lanman ; Tokyo's modern parks : spaces and practices / Sylvie Brosseau -- Achieving a social construction of the self. Silent performances in Guadeloupean Dooryard gardens : the Creolization of the self and the environment / Catherine Benoit ; Performing hybridity : wedding rituals at Japanese-style gardens in Southern California / Kendall H. Brown -- Struggling for political changes. Academy landscapes and the ritualization of cultural memory in China under the Mongols / Linda Walton ; British Naumachia : the performance of triumph and memorial / Patrick Eyres ; Rituals of transgression in public parks in Britain, 1846 to the present / David Lambert.

Summary:

Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how cultural changes occur, and devotes chapters to public landscapes in the Netherlands, seventeenth-century Parisian gardens, Freemason gardens in Tuscany, nineteenth-century Scottish kitchen gardens, and the public parks of Edo and modern Tokyo. The second part provides striking examples of construction of self in vernacular gardens in Guadeloupe and American Japanese-style gardens in California. Finally, the third section analyzes struggles for political change in gardens of Yuan China and modern Britain. -- Publisher.

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ISBN:

0884023133 (pbk.)
9780884023135 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens Symbolic aspects Congresses.
Gardens Psychological aspects Congresses.
Landscape architecture Congresses.
Landscape assessment Congresses.
Rites and ceremonies Congresses.
Public spaces Psychological aspects Congresses.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Congrès.
Jardins Aspect psychologique Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Congrès.
Paysages Évaluation Congrès.
Rites et cérémonies Congrès.
Espaces publics Aspect psychologique Congrès.
Gardens Psychological aspects
Gardens Symbolic aspects
Landscape architecture
Landscape assessment
Public spaces Psychological aspects
Rites and ceremonies
Garten Nutzung Kultur Geschichte Kongress Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC, 2003)

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; 27.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252158
Call No.: SB470.7 .D86 2003
Status: Available