Professor Dixon Hunt's highly acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, provides a thoroughly researched, conceptual approach to what many consider to be a solely practical activity. Taking a broad view of gardens as landscape architecture, Greater Perfections explores the meaning of 'garden' and its relationship to other interventions in the natural world. Above all, it offers a new and challenging account of the role of representation in garden art itself. Though his book draws upon many different historical traditions and archival materials (including a rich array of visual illustrations), Hunt undertakes on major historical excursus: into the late 17th century and the figure of John Evelyn. Wide-ranging in its other references - from Babylon to Battery Park City, from Renaissance villas to reconstituted wetlands, from Elizabethan poetry to Wallace Stevens - Greater Perfections proposes a wholly fresh basis for the understanding of that most vital and persistent human activity: the making of gardens.
| ISBN | 0500281939 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780500281932
(What's this?) | | Pages | 288 | | Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 1100 | | Imprint | Thames & Hudson Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 248 | | Publication date | 26 Apr 2004 | | Width (mm) | 219 | | DEWEY | 712 | | Academic level | General |
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1. 'First Principles' or 'Rudiments'; 2. What on Earth is a Garden? 3. The Idea of a Garden and the Three Natures; 4. Representation; 5. Word and Image in the Garden; 6. Gardens in Word and Image; 7. Historical Excursus: Late Seventeenth-Century Garden Theory; 8. Toward a new Historiography and New Practices
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