Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens - From Antiquity to the Present

This book explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. It reveals the significant ways in which women write themselves into the accounts of garden design, practice, and history.

Sommario

Introduction 1. Garden Design as Feminist Ground 2. Pompeian Gardens and the Archaeological Imagination 3. The Garden's Transformational Artifice in Valois France 4. Garden Theory, Gardening Practice: William and Dorothy Wordsworth 5. Places for the Spirit, Photographs of Traditional African American Gardens 6. On the Diagonal, through the Window: Marie Menken's Glimpse of the Garden, 1957 and Rosalind Nashashibi's Vivian's Garden, 2017 7. Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell at Kew Gardens Epilogue: What If We Start with the Garden?

Info autore

Victoria E. Pagán is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, USA.
Judith W. Page is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Scholar Emerita at the University of Florida, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Victoria E. Page Pagan
• Con la collaborazione di: Victoria E. Pagán (Editore), Page Judith W. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032464091
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246409-1
• Pagine: 182
• Serie: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Photography & photographs, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, GARDENING / Garden Design, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, NATURE / Ecology, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Anthropology, Social & cultural history, ART / Popular Culture, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, GARDENING / Essays & Narratives, History of Art, Environmentalist thought & ideology, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Social impact of environmental issues, Regional / International studies, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Gender studies, gender groups, The Americas, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Art forms, Photography and photographs, Landscape architecture and design, The Arts: art forms, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics