The changing garden : four centuries of European and American art / Betsy G. Fryberger ; with essays by Paula Deitz ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fryberger, Betsy G.

Contributor:

Deitz, Paula.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

University of Michigan. Museum of Art.

Series:

Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint

The Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens in art--Exhibitions.

Gardens in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ; Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated volume examines the garden as an enduring and evolving cultural resource, in two hundred works by more than one hundred artists. Prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings illuminate the changing aesthetics and uses of gardens from the powerful Medici dynasty's villas in sixteenth-century Florence and Louis XIV's royal showcase at Versailles to such democratic urban parks as New York City's Central Park and San Francisco's Crissy Field, adapted from a former military base. The artists' representations of gardens have been organized first to highlight design concepts and individual features, then to focus on historic gardens and parks, and finally to survey the activities within those settings. Among the earliest works included is a 1570 engraving of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's drawing of a garden being vigorously cultivated by many workers.

Two centuries later, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Jean-Honore Fragonard represented the Villa d'Este at Tivoli in a state of neglected grandeur, while Hubert Robert's painting of Mereville depicted a garden he helped design. By 1900 Eugene Atget's photographs of Versailles and Camille Pissarro's paintings of the Tuileries conveyed the enduring structure of French formal gardens. In contrast, American artists Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler depicted the pleasures of social activities in that setting. More recently, photographers Michael Kenna and Bruce Davidson have offered twentieth-century perspectives on classical French gardens and life in a city park, respectively. Betsy G. Fryberger provides an art historical overview, followed by essays by Claudia Lazzaro, on printed views of Italian gardens; Elizabeth S. Eustis, on prints as propaganda under Louis XIV; Diana Ketcham, on late-eighteenth-century French gardens as private retreats; Carol M. Osborne, on gardens as social settings for American painters; and Paula Deitz, on George Hargreaves's recent conversion of various urban spaces into public parks. Their diverse viewpoints guide readers through the complex and artful interactions of gardens with their human stewards and subjects.

Contents:

The Artist and the Changing Garden / Betsy G. Fryberger 1

Representing the Social and Cultural Experience of Italian Gardens in Prints / Claudia Lazzaro 29

The Garden Print as Propaganda, 1573-1683 / Elizabeth S. Eustis 41

Mereville: Last Masterwork of the Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden in France / Diana Ketcham 53

City Parks and Private Gardens in Paintings of Modern America, 1875-1920 / Carol M. Osborne 63

Resurrection: The Built Landscapes of George Hargreaves / Paula Deitz 75

Designing Gardens 83

Historic Gardens 131

Garden Gatherings 199.

Notes:

"The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California June 11-September 7, 2003, the Dixon Art Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, October 19, 2003-January 11, 2004, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 13-May 23, 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520238826

0520238834

OCLC:

51763980