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Books > Gardening > Garden design & planning
The four essays that make up this book take as their subject
gardens of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose traces are still
visible, in varying degrees, at sites in Italy and France: Palermo
and Rome, the Vaucluse and Hesdin. Traces only, as these gardens
have long since been emptied of the life whose insistent motion
gave them shape and in the intervening years have been transformed
in such a way as to entangle and obscure significant moments of
their past. Yet these moments were also refracted in other media -
images and texts - that may be used to bring the past into focus
again in the landscape itself. The following book attempts
precisely this. Its modus operandi is an experiment, crossing the
constitutive acts of the discipline of archaeology - excavation and
reconstruction - with the protocols of the history of art, as it
will involve, in a continuous circuit, both the identification and
the interpretation of salient witnesses of the past. This
experiment may derive from archaeology and the history of art, but
its subject belongs to the field of landscape studies, which has
truly burgeoned in recent years under the auspices of a provisional
and yet ever-widening constituency of disciplines and initiatives,
including garden history, cultural geography and environmental
science, as well as anthropology and the histories of art and
architecture, literature, material culture and performance. As
landscape has become an increasingly independent field of inquiry,
however, it has tended to take on the character of an autonomous
form like that of the arts, whose methods of theory and criticism
have become ensconced in the academy. This book will take a
differnt path. The landscape it seeks to narrate, in four discrete
episodes, stands not alone, as an independent and integral
creation, but as an installation within a more enduring environment
in much the same way that temporary "ambient architecture" - the
architecture of the stage set, the showroom and the festival -
stands within the framework of building and city. - from the
Author's Prologue. 238 pages. Acknowledgments, prologue, notes,
bibliography and index. 78 color and black & white
illustrations. Art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, landscape
studies.
Japanese Gardens - Revealed and Explained is comprehensive and
thorough in its coverage of the subject of Japanese gardens and
provides the reader with a window into the history, meaning and eye
catching beauty of these unique creations. All aspects of Japanese
gardens and gardening are covered from design to ingredients with
coverage of subjects such as pruning techniques as well as numerous
suggestions of what to plant in a Japanese garden courtesy of
Master gardener L.H. Bailey. Discover Zen gardens (sometimes known
as Japanese Rock gardens) and the deliberate ease of their
appearance on the eye, as well as meaning and design. This book is
suitable for beginners right the way through to the more
experienced enthusiasts of Japanese gardens. Lovingly put together
by the author and editor Russ Chard - a Japanese garden enthusiast
and writer for over 10 years. This book is 70 pages of pure
Japanese garden information. The subject is complicated but
Japanese gardens - Revealed and Explained is in plain English,
simplified for ease of learning. Anyone with ambitions to create
and build a Japanese garden or Zen garden will find this book a
very useful companion to realizing their dreams and plans .
If you have ever wondered 'What is a Zen garden?' then this 50 page
new publication for 2013 will tell you. Zen gardens are beautiful
Japanese gardens steeped in history, religious meaning and a visual
simplicity. There are many styles and many ingredients, Stones,
Rocks, Moss, Sand, Gravel, Plants and Shrubs, Lanterns and
Ornaments. Japanese Zen gardens is a book that introduces the
reader to the subject and presents the options available for anyone
wishing to build their own garden space at home - however large or
small. Zen gardens are becoming more and more popular around the
world and building one is not as difficult as you may think. With a
little knowledge and following our step by step instructions with
pictures you will discover how straight forward it is to build a
Zen garden in your yard or garden. Japanese Zen gardens are serene
havens of tranquil beauty and the perfect antidote to a stressful
world. The author Russ Chard has written and published Japanese
garden books, articles and videos for the past 10 years.
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