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What Gardens Mean (Hardcover, New)
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What Gardens Mean (Hardcover, New)
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Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden?
How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them? In
What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as
the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the
magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing
landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates
gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex
messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between
gardens and the art of painting. What Gardens Mean offers a
distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging
from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to
incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And
while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison's Spectator essays
on the pleasures of imagination, the book's opening chapter surveys
more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She
also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in
garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or
strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art
of gardening is now a dead one. Showing that an artistic lineage
can be traced from gardens in the Age of Satire to current
environmental installations, this book is a sophisticated account
of the myriad pleasures that gardens offer and a testimony to their
enduring sensory and cognitive appeal. Beautifully illustrated and
elegantly written, What Gardens Mean will delight all those
interested in the history of gardens and the aesthetic and
philosophical issues that they invite.
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