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Gardens at the Frontier - New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Paperback)
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Gardens at the Frontier - New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Paperback)
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Gardens at the Frontier addresses broad issues of interest to
architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers,
geographers, and other scholars. It uses different disciplinary
perspectives to explore garden history's thematic, geographical,
and methodological frontiers through a focus on gardens as sites of
cultural contact. The contributors address the extent to which
gardens inhibit or further cultural contact; the cultural
translation of garden concepts, practices and plants from one place
to another; the role of non-written sources in cultural transfer;
and which disciplines study gardens and designed landscapes, and
how and why their approaches vary. Chapters cover a range of
designed landscapes and locations, periods and approaches: medieval
Japanese roji (tea gardens); a seventeenth-century garden of
southern China; post-war Australian 'natural gardens'; iconic
twentieth-century American modernist gardens; 'international'
willow-pattern design; geology and designed landscapes; gnomes; and
landscape authorship of a public garden. Each chapter examines
transfers of cultural ideas and their physical denouement. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in the
History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes.
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