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Author | : Robert Pogue Harrison |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2010-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1459606264 |
Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt - all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.
Author | : Claude-Henri Watelet |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2013-10-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0812204131 |
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. He advances the theory that the useful and the pleasurable must be combined in the planning, preservation, and decoration of the land by offering a relatively novel design that uses experimental methods to create a comfortable estate. The result is a horticultural and ecological laboratory that includes a residence, a farm, stables, a dairy, an apiary, a mill, walks, vistas, flower beds, an area reserved for medicinal plants, decorative statues, a medical laboratory, and even a small infirmary for ailing members of the community. Given the wide scholarly interest in the field of garden design and its history, this first English edition of Watelet's small but influential book will interest historians of landscape design as well as students of the history of architecture. Joseph Disponzio's informative introduction to Samuel Danon's masterful translation situates the Essay on Gardens within the framework of other landscape and garden treatises of the late eighteenth century. Although the original text was not illustrated, this edition includes a selection of charming drawings and etchings of Moulin Joli by Watelet himself, Hubert Robert, and others.
Author | : Henk Gerritsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9789461400123 |
Exhibition Going Dutch in the London Garden Museum, 5 October - 20 February 2011 Henk Gerritsen started designing the Dutch Priona gardens in 1978. He is internationally well-known as the writer of the first Piet Oudolf books and as a designer of gardens in several countries. One of his best projects was a complete renovation of the organic gardens at Waltham Place, near London. Essay on gardening however is not a game between well-matched opponents. Nature is much more powerful than man. Thinking ahead is not sufficient; nature is an unpredictable opponent, who may come forward with moves that no man could have foreseen.
Author | : Фрэнсис Бэкон |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040839197 |
Author | : Francis Bacon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Various Authors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-03-21 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781911547921 |
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the success of At the Pond and In the Kitchen.
Author | : Sir Thomas Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1736 |
Genre | : Gardening |
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Author | : Merilyn Simonds |
Publisher | : Doubleday Canada |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 038567046X |
A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that keep time, to the strange gift of compost, to great gardens of the world, to things lost and found underground. She is joined on her journey by a host of companions — including her Beloved, who tills by her side; the Rosarian, who tends to both bud and thorn in roses and life; and the Frisarian, who weeds unwelcome visitors to make room for new growth. Intelligent and intimate, irreverent and elegant, A New Leaf offers a cornucopia of enrichment and inspiration for the fertile mind.
Author | : Jamaica Kincaid |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2001-05-15 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1466828749 |
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156028646 |
Walker's essays and articles written between 1966 and 1982 discuss the concept and influence of art and the artist's life, criticisms of authors such as Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, studies in the civil rights movement and feminist movement, and her own ideas while writing her book "The Color Purple."