Foreign trends in American gardens : a history of exchange, adaptation, and reception / edited by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella, editor.

John Dixon Hunt Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--United States--Foreign influences--History.

Gardens.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Contents:

pt. 1. British influences. The American translation of the picturesque / Emily T. Cooperman and John Dixon Hunt ; Studying peculiarities / Andrew Jackson Downing's multifaceted adaptation of British principles to American practices and ways of life / Caren Yglesias

pt. 2. French exchanges. "These beautiful pleasure-grounds of death" : nineteenth-century America's adaptation of the Parisian rural cemetery / Jill Sinclair ; Of monarchical climates and republican soil : French plants and American gardens in the Revolutionary Era / Elizabeth Hyde

pt. 3. The reception of the Italian garden in America. The American colonial garden and the garden of the country place era : the role of ancient and early modern Italy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto ; Camera Bella : the photograph and the perception of the Italian garden in America / Rebecca Warren Davidson

pt. 4. The American identity as perceived by the Americans and the foreigners. Considering fitness and fairness : the search for American identity in garden and forest / Eric McDonald ; Growing home : Thomas Affleck, immigrant and advisor in the American South / James Schissel ; A European "northerner" in California : Richard Neutra as a landscape architect / Johannes Stoffler

pt. 5. The pull of the Orient. Political landscapes : Japanese gardens at San Francisco's World's Fairs of 1915 and 1939 / Kendall H. Brown ; The garden network : George Rogers Hall's horticultural activism / Sara A. Butler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Dixon Hunt Fund.

ISBN:

9780813939131

0813939135

9780813939292

0813939291

OCLC:

958585762