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Gardens in the Modern Landscape : A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition /
Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in g...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; GARDENS IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword to the facsimile edition; Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1948 edition); FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LANDSCAPE INTO GARDEN; I. Reason and Romanticism; The Grotto. A manifestation of the taste for ""Awful Beauty"" in the eighteenth-century garden; II. The Verdant Age; A Garden Landscape, 1740; III. Pictures versus Prospects; A Garden Landscape, 1840; THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRADITION; I. Victorian Ideals; II. Colour and the Cottage Garden; III. Science and Specialization; TOWARDS A NEW TECHNIQUE.
- I. Functional Aspects of Garden PlanningII. Asymmetrical Garden Planning; III. Art and Ornament; Modern Interpretations of Traditional Forms; IV. The Planter's Eye; Architects' Plants; GARDEN INTO LANDSCAPE; I. Gardens in the Modern Landscape; The Garden in the Landscape. A summary of characteristic development over 200 years; II. Community Gardens; III. A Solution for Today; The Minimum Garden; A Garden Landscape in Transition; IV. The Wider Planning; MODERN AMERICAN GARDENS; THE MODERN GARDEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.