Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (33rd : 2009)
Interlacing words and things : bridging the nature-culture opposition in gardens and landscape / Stephen Bann, editor.
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2012]
vi, 174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture no. 23
[This book] examines the ways in which the natural world has been transformed through the creative use of language. The nine contributors do not assume that there is an opposition between nature and culture, but rather emphasize that forms of language are embedded in our understanding and appreciation of the natural environment. Their illustrated essays consider the relationship between language and the natural world as it has been mediated in different cultures and at different periods by broad notions such as landscape and the garden. Complementing the richness of hte examples covered in the volume is the message that writing must still be integrally involved in the creative remaking of the natural world.
9780884023692 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0884023699 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Gardens Philosophy Congresses.
Gardens in literature Congresses.
Gardens History Congresses.
Philosophy of nature Congresses.
Jardins Philosophie Congrès.
Jardins dans la littérature Congrès.
Philosophie de la nature Congrès.
gardens.
cultural values.
history.
Gardens.
Gardens Philosophy.
Gardens in literature.
Philosophy of nature.
Garten
Naturverständnis
Natur
Kultur
Gardens History
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.
Bann, Stephen, editor.
Bann, Stephen
Dumbarton Oaks. Garden and Landscape Studies.
Interlacing of words and things in gardens and landscapes, beyond nature and culture.
Leaping the fence, transitions between garden and landscape in the Chinese and European traditions.
Location: Library main 277619
Call No.: BIB 212482
Status: Available
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