The Vernacular garden / edited by John Dixon Hunt and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hunt, John Dixon.

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim

Dumbarton Oaks.

Conference Name:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (14th : 1990)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular gardens--Congresses.

Vernacular gardens.

Gardens--Congresses.

Gardens.

Gardening--Congresses.

Gardening.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

165 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1993]

Summary:

The study of vernacular gardening is a new departure for scholarly investigations of gardening practices and forms. While much has been written on the traditions of elite gardens--Villa d'Este, Versailles, Stowe, and others--little attention has been directed to the gardens of more humble and popular cultures reflecting regional, localized, ethnic, personal, or folk creations. The articles in this volume parallel developments in other areas of cultural studies and reflect a growing interest in a wider range of cultural artifacts that demonstrate how culture can profoundly influence our surroundings. These essays consider vernacular gardens, gardening, and gardening communities, including the journalism of popular homemaking, African-American communities, a "cooperative" of French market gardeners, the closed world of British Royal Naval housing, and a French mining community.

Notes:

Selected papers from the 14th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, in 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (page 159) and index.

ISBN:

0884022013

OCLC:

25832264