Title: Foreign trends in American gardens : a history of exchange, adaptation, and reception /
Authors: Hunt, John Dixon,; Hyde, Elizabeth,; Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella,; Davidson, Rebecca Warren,; MacDonald, Eric,; Schissel, James,; Brown, Kendall H.,; Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gardens United States Foreign influences History.
Abstract: "Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic."--
Contents: The American Translation of the Picturesque / Emily T. Cooperman and John Dixon Hunt -- Studying Peculiarities, Andrew Jackson Downing’s Multifaceted Adaptation of British Principles to American Practices and Ways of Life / Caren Yglesias -- “These Beautiful Pleasure-Grounds of Death”, Nineteenth-Century America’s Adaptation of the Parisian Rural Cemetery / Jill Sinclair -- Of Monarchical Climates and Republican Soil, French Plants and American Gardens in the Revolutionary Era / Elizabeth Hyde -- The American Colonial Garden and the Garden of the Country Place Era, The Role of Ancient and Early Modern Italy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto -- Camera Bella, The Printed Photograph and the Perception of the Italian Garden in America / Rebecca Warren Davidson -- Considering Fitness and Fairness, The Search for American Identity in Garden and Forest / Eric MacDonald -- Growing Home, Thomas Affleck, Immigrant and Advisor in the American South / James Schissel -- A European “Northerner” in California, Richard Neutra as a Landscape Architect / Johannes Stoffler -- Political Landscapes, Japanese Gardens at San Francisco’s World’s Fairs of 1915 and 1939 / Kendall H. Brown -- The Garden Network, George Rogers Hall’s Horticultural Activism / Sara A. Butler.