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Book Theorie Des Jardins  1776

Download or read book Theorie Des Jardins 1776 written by Jean Marie Morel and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book The Foul and the Fragrant

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  • Author : Alain Corbin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780674311763
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The Foul and the Fragrant written by Alain Corbin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Book The  rie Des Jardins

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1802
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book The rie Des Jardins written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century written by Martin Calder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the papers presented at a conference entitled 'Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century', held at the Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, University of London on 13 March 2004. Speakers came from Europe, the United States and New Zealand, and each gave a very different perspective on the eighteenth-century landscape garden in England, France and elsewhere in Europe. The papers focused on the theme of experience, an especially important aspect of eighteenth-century garden design. Landscape gardens were created for visitors to move through on a journey from one place to the next: the garden would not be seen all at once, but would be experienced as a story unfolding. The visitor would follow a circuit around the garden, moving from light to shade, being given suggestive prompts with statues, temples and viewpoints, as if on a sensory, emotional and intellectual journey.

Book The History of Gardens

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  • Author : Christopher Thacker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1985-10-22
  • ISBN : 9780520056299
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The History of Gardens written by Christopher Thacker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-10-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirit of a race or an age can be reflected even in the choice and use of plants: with the coming ofZen Buddhism, the Japanese practically ceased to grow flowers in their gardens, an attitude which Le Notre, garden designer ofVersailles, who once said 'flowers are for nursemaids' would doubtless have appreciated. In this fascinating and highly informative book, Christopher Thacker tells the history of gardens from their origins in the 'natural' paradises of Greek myth to the present day. Studying individual gardens or garden topics which are rep~ntative of an age or region, he builds up a comprehensive survey of the gardens and garden theories of an era. Whether Dr Thacker is discussing garden philosophers and designers (Alberti, Mollet, de Vries, Capability Brown, Genrude Jekyll, Russell Page, and many others), or bringing to life the lost gardens of the past, like the Yuan Ming Yuan in Peling, or William Shenstone's the Leasowes, or surveying the weird and mysterious statuary of Bomarzo, his text is always absorbing and authoritative. Profusely illustrated, this book should become a classic on its subject.

Book English Pleasure Gardens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rose Standish Nichols
  • Publisher : New York ; London : Macmillan, 1902 (Norwood, Mass. : Norwood Press)
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book English Pleasure Gardens written by Rose Standish Nichols and published by New York ; London : Macmillan, 1902 (Norwood, Mass. : Norwood Press). This book was released on 1902 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gardens Ancient and Modern

Download or read book Gardens Ancient and Modern written by Albert Forbes Sieveking and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Praise of Gardens

Download or read book The Praise of Gardens written by Albert Forbes Sieveking and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atlas of Emotion

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  • Author : Giuliana Bruno
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 178663323X
  • Pages : 1133 pages

Download or read book Atlas of Emotion written by Giuliana Bruno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, Giuliana Bruno touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Message, the film making of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, the origins of the movie palace and its precursors, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Book History of Architectural Theory

Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Book Gardening   Philosophy for Everyone

Download or read book Gardening Philosophy for Everyone written by Dan O'Brien and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of fascinating philosophical themes. Gardens and philosophy present a fascinating combination of subjects, historically important, and yet scarcely covered within the realms of philosophy Contributions come from a wide range of authors, ranging from garden writers and gardeners, to those working in architecture, archaeology, archival studies, art history, anthropology, classics and philosophy Essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from Epicurus and Confucius to the aesthetics and philosophy of Central Park Offers new perspectives on the experience and evaluation of gardens

Book The Bradley Bibliography

Download or read book The Bradley Bibliography written by Alfred Rehder and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Garden and Forest

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  • Author : Charles Sprague Sargent
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Garden and Forest written by Charles Sprague Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry.

Book Collecting and Displaying China s    Summer Palace    in the West

Download or read book Collecting and Displaying China s Summer Palace in the West written by Louise Tythacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.

Book On Other Grounds

Download or read book On Other Grounds written by Brigitte Weltman-Aron and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.

Book L horticulture Dans Les Cinq Parties Du Monde

Download or read book L horticulture Dans Les Cinq Parties Du Monde written by Charles Baltet and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Mittelweg

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  • Author : Michael G. Lee
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-09-10
  • ISBN : 1000143813
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The German Mittelweg written by Michael G. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue the most visionary concepts that had been inherited from the German garden tradition with the intellectual resources that were newly available through Kant’s critical philosophy. The most important of these concepts was the prescription for a new Mittelweg, or "middle path," garden that would mediate between the perceived excesses of French formalism and the English picturesque. In close analysis, the author demonstrates that Kant used similar "middle path" techniques in the design of his own "critical path" between dogmatism and skepticism. This similarity is most apparent when he uses topographical metaphors to describe the organizational principles of his system. By interpreting Kant’s topographical metaphors in relation to contemporary garden theories, this book offers new insights into the structural similarities between his "critical path" and the German garden’s "middle path" between French formalism and the English picturesque.