Interlacing of words and things in gardens and landscapes, beyond nature and culture. Leaping the fence, transitions between garden and landscape in the Chinese and European traditions.
Notes:
"[B]ased on papers presented at the symposium 'The Interlacing of Words and Things in Gardens and Landscapes: Beyond Nature and Culture' organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks. The symposium was held on 8-9 May 2009"--T.p. verso. "Dumbarton Oaks collaborated with the University of Bristol in a preliminary conference, 'Leaping the Fence: Transitions between Garden and Landscape in the Chinese and European Traditions' (Burwalls Conference Centre, 18-20 April 2008), where four of the contributors to this volume gave earlier versions of their papers"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What happens to words in gardens and landscapes / Yves Abrioux -- "Capturing the scene" : seeing and writing the landscape / Malcolm Andrews -- "The horizon of Holland" : a poetic prelude to Ian Hamilton Finlay's gardens / Stephen Bann -- Virgil's Georgics and the poetic landscape of the English civil war / Henry Power -- History, neo-Confucian identity, and landscape at the Yuelu Academy / Xin Wu -- A place for the gods: gardens of Buddhist and Hindu India / Frederick M. Asher -- The garden city of Shah Tahmasb reflected in the words of his poet and painter / Mahvash Alemi -- The wilderness-garden paradigm in sixteenth-century New Spain : paradise between metaphor and lived reality / Jeanette Favrot Peterson -- Garden as threshold in eighteenth-century New Spain : the Puebla cathedral's hortus conclusus / Patricia Díaz Cayeros.
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