Illustrated history of landscape design / Elizabeth Boults and Chip Sullivan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boults, Elizabeth, 1949-
Other Authors: Sullivan, Chip
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prehistory-6th century. Cosmological landscapes
  • Ancient gardens
  • Landscape and architecture
  • Genius loci
  • 6th-15th centuries. Western Europe : walled minds, walled gardens
  • Moorish Spain : an indelible influence
  • China : nature's splendor in a garden
  • Japan : in the spirit of nature
  • 15th century. Japan : Muromachi era
  • China : Ming dynasty
  • Central Asia : Timurid garden cities
  • Italy : curious minds, broadened vistas
  • 16th century. Italy : the rebirth of Rome
  • Renaissance gardens in France and England
  • The early botanic garden : an encyclopedia of plants
  • Early Mughal gardens : Persian art forms travel east
  • Japan : the Momoyama era
  • 17th century. Japan : Edo period
  • The Mughal empire : sacred symmetries
  • Persian gardens of paradise
  • Italian Baroque styles
  • The flowering of the Dutch landscape
  • English gardens : a restrained mix of European styles
  • French classical gardens: the control of nature
  • 18th century. England : the development of the landscape garden
  • The landscape garden in France
  • China : Qianlong's imprint
  • Early American gardens : homeland traditions
  • 19th century. England : the Victorians and their plants
  • France : republics and empires
  • Landscape architecture in America
  • 20th century. The Gilded Age : extremes of wealth and poverty
  • The new aesthetic of modernism
  • Environmental art: nature as medium
  • Artistic trends in landscape design
  • Environmental and ecological design
  • Postmodern landscapes
  • 21st century. A sustainable Earth : ten ideas.