Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations

Klappentext The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience. Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.), Dieter Kienast (Switzerland), Bernard Lassus (France), and Mohammed Shaheer (India). The first half of the volume begins with an argument for a return to John Dewey's focus on "Art as Experience," while the second half concludes with a debate on the respective roles of cognition and the senses, and of science and the visual arts.

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• Authors: Stephen Bann, Jacky Dr. Bowring, Michel Conan, Michel (EDT) Conan, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Susan Herrington
• Assisted by: Michel Conan (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2007
• EAN: 9780884023258
• ISBN: 978-0-88402-325-8
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 265 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on t; History of Landscape Architecture Colloquium S.; Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture; Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture