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In Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, Frederick Morgan reworks and
amplifies, in his extraordinary poetic range, the fundamental human
themes that preoccupied him-love, death, pain, the nature and
transcendence of the Self. In interweaving his many themes, he
recaptures the past, the confrontation with the external world of
nature and the internal world of dream, the oppositions and
ambiguities of body and spirit, and the reduplications of meaning
in legend and fable. Assembled from eight previous collections, and
including his final poems, this profoundly moving book transcends
individual expression to provide a powerful insight into universal
human experience.
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with
her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her
writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive
travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the
Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home again to New York City's
Central Park. Collected for the first time, the essays in Of
Gardens record her great adventure of continual discovery, not only
of the artful beauty of individual gardens but also of the
intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns
of civilization, from the modest garden for family subsistence to
major urban developments. Deitz's essays describe how people, over
many centuries and in many lands, have expressed their originality
by devoting themselves to cultivation and conservation. During a
visit to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine,
Deitz first came to appreciate the notion that landscape
architecture can be as intricately conceived as any major structure
and is, indeed, the means by which we redeem the natural
environment through design. Years later, as she wandered through
the gardens of Versailles, she realized that because gardens give
structure without confinement, they encourage a liberation of
movement and thought. In Of Gardens, we follow Deitz down paths of
revelation, viewing "A Bouquet of British Parks: Liverpool,
Edinburgh, and London"; the parks and promenades of Jerusalem; the
Moonlight Garden of the Taj Mahal; a Tuscan-style villa in southern
California; and the rooftop garden at Tokyo's Mori Center, among
many other sites. Deitz covers individual landscape architects and
designers, including Andre Le Notre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix
Farrand, Russell Page, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. She then
features an array of parks, public places, and gardens before
turning her attention to the burgeoning business of flower shows.
The volume concludes with a memorable poetic epilogue entitled "A
Winter Garden of Yellow."
A stunning new look at the Tuileries Garden and its importance to
the history of art and landscape architectureThe Tuileries Garden
is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world's most
iconic public art spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape
architect Andre Le Notre, it served the now-destroyed Tuileries
Palace. It was opened to the public in 1667, becoming one of the
first public gardens in Europe. The garden has always been a place
for Parisians to convene, celebrate, and promenade, and art has
played an important role throughout its history. Monumental
sculptures give the garden the air of an outdoor museum, and the
garden's beautiful backdrop has inspired artists from Edouard Manet
to Andre Kertesz. The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden brings
together 100 works of art, including paintings and sculptures, as
well as documentary photographs, prints, and models illuminating
the garden's rich history. Beautifully illustrated essays by
leading scholars of art and garden studies highlight the
significance of the Tuileries Garden to works of art from the past
300 years and reaffirm its importance to the history of landscape
architecture. Published in association with the High Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule: High Museum of Art (11/03/13-01/19/14) Toledo
Museum of Art (02/13/14-05/11/14) Portland Art Museum
(06/14/14-09/21/14)
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