A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse. The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature. A ltural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.>

List of contents

Introduction
1. Design, Timothy Mowl, University of Bristol, UK
2. Types of Gardens, Michael Charlesworth, University of Texas at Austin, USA
3. Plantings, Michael Symes, independent scholar
4. Use and Reception, David Lambert, independent scholar
5. Meaning, Patrick Eyres, independent scholar
6. Verbal Representations, Rachel Crawford, University of San Francisco, USA
7. Visual Representations, Annie Richardson, University of Lincoln, UK
8. Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Sarah Spooner, University of East Anglia, UK, and Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia, UK

Summary

The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse.

The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature.

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Bending, Stephen (University of Southampton Bending
• Assisted by: Stephen Bending (Editor), Bending Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781350009929
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00992-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Cultural Histories Series; Cultural Histories; The Cultural Histories Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, GARDENING / Essays & Narratives, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, Landscape architecture and design