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The World of Andre Le Notre (Paperback)
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The World of Andre Le Notre (Paperback)
Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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The World of Andre Le Notre Thierry Mariage. Translated by Graham
Larkin "A stimulating effort to contextualize Le Notre's career and
to relate the 'French formal garden' to the cultural and political
environment of Louis XIV's reign."--"French History" "This
ambitious book is intellectually significant, well researched, and
cogently presented. . . . Excellent."--"Geographical Reviews" "A
substantial contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French
garden practice."--"Landscape Architecture" The gardens of
Versailles--along with the name of their chief creator, Andre Le
Notre (1613-1700)--have become synonymous with the French style of
"formal" garden. This style in its turn would succumb to another
"national" mode, the English school of naturalistic and picturesque
landscapes. But as Thierry Mariage makes clear, the garden style
that Le Notre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition
to the later "English" one. Rather, he claims, they represent two
points along a continuum that exists between the natural and
cultural worlds. Published originally in Belgium as "L'univers de
Le Nostre," Mariage's examination of Le Notre moves beyond
traditional art historical documentation and appreciation into a
realm of interpretation. He situates Le Notre's garden art in a
complex social and cultural world, where the practices of land
management, surveying techniques and hydrology, military practice,
and both scientific and literary perspectives on land use and
experience brought into being a unique form of landscape
architecture. His analysis opens up the fashion in which design
techniques and garden philosophy are shaped by material culture.
Thierry Mariage is Architect for National and Historical Monuments,
in charge of Versailles Museum, Park, and Gardens. Graham Larkin is
Curator of European and American Art at the National Gallery of
Canada. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture 1998 168 pages 7 x
10 38 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2136-7 Paper $26.50s 17.50 World
Rights Architecture Short copy: Mariage's examination of Andre Le
Notre moves beyond traditional art historical documentation and
appreciation into a realm of interpretation. He situates Le Notre
garden art in a complex social and cultural world.
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