Contemporary garden aesthetics, creations and interpretations / edited by Michel Conan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Conan, Michel.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Conference Name:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (29th : 2005)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--Design--Congresses.

Gardens.

Landscape architecture--Congresses.

Landscape architecture.

Gardens--Design.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience. Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.), Dieter Kienast (Switzerland), Bernard Lassus (France), and Mohammed Shaheer (India). The first half of the volume begins with an argument for a return to John Dewey's focus on "Art as Experience," while the second half concludes with a debate on the respective roles of cognition and the senses, and of science and the visual arts.

Contents:

Introduction: In Defiance of the Institutional Art World / Michel Conan 3

"When Art is a Garden-Benny Farm by Claude Cormier" / Susan Herrington 17

"The Re-enchantment of the Maegaki residence by Mirei Shigemori" / Christian Tschumi 35

"Culture, Tradition and Contemporary Indian Landscape Design: Mohammed Shaheer at Sanskriti Kendra" / Priyaleen Singh 59

"The Garden as the Last Luxury Today: Thought Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)" / Udo Weilacher 81

"The Colas Gardens by Bernard Lassus: Coming to terms with Fleeting Encounters in a Decentered World" / Michel Conan 97

"Echoes of Paradise: Fernando Chacel's Gardens in the Coastal Plain of Jacarepagua." / Peter Jacobs 121

"Walking through the Crossing: The Draw at Sugar House Park by Patricia Johanson" / Xin Wu 141

"The Garden at Portrack Designed and Created by Charles Jencks (1986-2004): Entrapment and Release" / Michael Spens 163

"To Make the Stone[s] Stony: Defamiliarisation and Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stone" / Jacky Bowring 181

"Cardada by Paolo Burgi: The Experience of the Gaze" / Massimo Venturi Ferriolo 199

"The Planetary Garden, Garden Unknown: On the Work of Landscaper Gilles Clement" / Jacques Leenhardt 223

"A 'Garden of the Hesperides': The Landscape Initiative of the Musee Gassendi, Digne, and the National Park of Alpes de Haute-Provence" / Stephen Bann 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXIX held at Dumbarton Oaks May 5/7, 2005"--P. preceding t.p.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

9780884023258

0884023257

OCLC:

76261630